More about lack of integrity undermining trust in government

Trust thought for today - Integrity - and people wonder why society is losing trust in civic institutions and the law.

This Post Office scandal just goes from bad to worse. The lack of integrity and corruption of the PO, the government and its lawyers seems to know no bounds. Here in the Law Gazette

Government asks for role of lawyers to be left out of inquiry

"It might be the management asked the lawyers to make some of these problems go away or it may be the lawyers came to management and said ‘I think we can help these problems go away’,’ said Moorhead, who added that as many as six law firms may have advised the Post Office on private prosecutions.

"Moorhead said what happened had been a ‘lawyering scandal’ as much was an IT-based one, and submitted that some of the work before and since prosecutions was done ‘incompetently or unethically."

On a day when I read Deloitte was paid £1m a day for track and trace with individual consultants paid £6,000 a day, these behind-the-scenes actors need to be held as accountable as those in the public eye.

Via Ian Ross

BTW Nick Wallis book on this is now out:
https://lnkd.in/gxWFntZU

https://lnkd.in/gqpc2Hh6