Jody John Edward

THE LAWYERS WHO HELPED JAIL INNOCENT POSTMASTERS ARE UNDER INVESTIGATION Funny thing about lawyers. They spend every working day telling the rest of us to trust the process and respect the evidence. Then the evidence turns out to be garbage and the process turns out to be them, and suddenly nobody remembers a thing. 10 barristers are under investigation by the Bar Standards Board @barstandards. 20 solicitors are being probed by the Solicitors Regulation Authority @sra_solicitors. The allegation is that they helped the Post Office wrongly prosecute close to 1000 sub postmasters through the Horizon IT scandal. At least 13 deaths have been linked to it. These were not just junior lawyers pushing paper. They were strategy advisers. They told the Post Office a broken accounting system was solid while people went to prison on the strength of it. During the Bates litigation some of them even tried to get Mr Justice Fraser removed from the case, presumably because he kept noticing things they preferred he didnt. Hearings are expected this summer. The BSB says cases will move to its decision making panel this year. Nobody has been struck off. Nobody has been jailed. Postmasters are still waiting for compensation that was promised years ago. The legal profession is now asking itself how so many of its own crossed lines. Lovely bit of reflection. SOURCES @lawsocgazette @thetimes @BBCNews @PrivateEyeNews

Approaching the end of my career and increasingly disillusioned by recent insights gained from @paullavellefoun into how our society and big P politics don't seek consensus and equality, they actually thrive on creating division. Society seems engineered by folks more intent on settling old historic scores than creating conditions for Genuine Equality. Engineering a society where false allegations are now endemic & where Criminal Justice System strives for greater conviction rates to serve the needs of Politicians who promise to increase these rates for some crimes by easier wins from using "No Jury" trials. So rather than catching genuine perpetrators we seek politically inspired results for confirmatory biases - Wrongly accused folks might get NFA'd by CJS, but little investigation into false accusations and wasting police time or potential contempt of court, thus instituting perverse incentives for making false accusations in both CJS and Family Courts. Our legal system needs depoliticising and Objectivity on case by case basis can then encourage true equality rather than politicising demographies to cause division and polarisation of big "P" politics striving for partizan ideological votes . Objective "Burden of Proof" often seems now to have been morphed into the subjectivity of "Perceived Risk." The true need to change undoubted historic unfairnesses and create genuine equality throughout society gets mired and lost in no longer fit-for-purpose anachronistic Party Politics bias.

Women first stepped onto the court at Wimbledon 142 years ago 🎾 Since 2007, they've played for equal prize money. This Saturday, a new women’s champion will extend a legacy shaped by icons before her. Because #EqualPlay means levelling the playing field—on and off the court.

Are women really much less violent than men or have we been gaslit? On today's episode we look at the Mackenzie Shirilla case and this: youtu.be/Jlx2E5zwTvQ?si…