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Explore how destructive actions & flawed systems have undermined justice, derailing lives & disrupting society. Includes insights from Nick Wallis’s book.
The justice system, when distorted, ceases to be a guardian of fairness and becomes a tool of oppression. It burdens innocent individuals with existential struggles, using its authority not to protect, but to pervert the very principles it is supposed to uphold. This abuse of power extends beyond legal injustice, unraveling the social fabric and leaving people to navigate a labyrinth of inequality, often without support or solutions. Ultimately, this failure within the system disrupts both individual lives and the larger societal trust in justice.
Sub-postmasters expose Post Office Horizon scandal in Select Committee
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Alan Bates and Jo Hamilton gave evidence to the Business and Trade Committee earlier this week on their treatment as sub-postmasters during the Post Office Horizon scandal.
This proverb means that certain tasks require time, focus, and proper conditions to be done correctly, and rushing through them or trying to do them while on the move is ineffective. It emphasizes the importance of pausing or being in a stable situation to complete a task successfully.
As soon as shortages arose, Allan Bates, supported by data from the Horizon software, took constructive steps to address what was happening. However, it was like carrying water to the sea. The Post Office’s focus was not on the reality of the situation. Despite knowing that the real problem was the software—something that surfaced in various ways across Great Britain—a fictitious reality was created. Even though it was impossible, Subpostmasters were accused of theft when shortages occurred.
Je kunt geen paard al lopend beslaan
Dit spreekwoord betekent dat bepaalde taken tijd, focus en de juiste omstandigheden vereisen om goed uitgevoerd te worden, en dat haast of proberen ze terwijl je onderweg bent uit te voeren, ineffectief is. Het benadrukt het belang van pauzeren of in een stabiele situatie verkeren om een taak succesvol af te ronden.
Allan Bates heeft, zodra er tekorten ontstonden, zich op constructieve wijze gesteund door de gegevens van de Horizon-software ingespannen om de omstandigheden te creëren die nodig waren om aan te kaarten wat er gaande was. Het was echter een geval van water naar de zee dragen. De blik van de Post Office was niet gericht op de werkelijkheid van de situatie. Ondanks het feit dat men bij de Post Office goed wist dat het werkelijke probleem de software was — iets wat op allerlei manieren in Groot-Brittannië aan de oppervlakte kwam — werd er een fictieve werkelijkheid gecreëerd. Ondanks dat het onmogelijk was, werden de Subpostmasters beschuldigd van diefstal wanneer er tekorten opdoken.
This conveys the idea that you can offer someone an opportunity or help, but you cannot force them to take advantage of it or act on it.
It is incomprehensible that it was possible to distort an obvious reality, as in the Post Office scandal, and by all possible means — as made abundantly clear in Nick Wallis’s book and on this website — to scapegoat the Subpostmasters. It defies all imagination that this could happen. In the class action brought by 555 Subpostmasters before Justice Lord Peter Fraser, with a ruling on December 16, 2019, the reality was finally expressed unequivocally: the denials and accusations by the Post Office are the equivalent of claiming in the 21st century that the earth is flat. Furthermore, the earlier trials that convicted the Subpostmasters were deemed unreliable.
Je kunt een paard naar het water leiden, maar je kunt het niet laten drinken.
Het is onbegrijpelijk dat het mogelijk is een duidelijke werkelijkheid zo te verdraaien, zoals in het Post Office-schandaal, en met alle mogelijke middelen – zoals overvloedig duidelijk wordt in het boek van Nick Wallis en op deze website – de Subpostmasters tot zondebok te maken. Het tart elke verbeelding dat dit kon gebeuren. In de groepsrechtszaak van 555 Subpostmasters voor Justice Lord Peter Fraser, met een uitspraak op 16 december 2019, wordt de werkelijkheid uiteindelijk ondubbelzinnig verwoord: de ontkenningen en beschuldigingen door de Post Office zijn het equivalent van in de 21e eeuw volhouden dat de aarde plat is. Bovendien worden de eerdere rechtszaken waarin de Subpostmasters werden veroordeeld als onbetrouwbaar bestempeld.
Post Office Horizon IT Scandal | Two Decades | 2024
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10 jan 2024
Hudgell Solicitors are the legal firm at the forefront of the continuing fight for justice for former sub-postmasters who were victims of what is now recognised as the biggest miscarriage of justice in UK legal history.
Watch the real story of those affected by the Post Office Horizon IT Scandal and the fight for justice over the past two decades.
A Second Alleged Post Office Scandal
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9 sep 2024
A software predating Horizon and developed by the Post Office named Capture is at the heart of a second alleged IT postal scandal & a new ITV drama airing tonight.
Broadcast on 09/09/24
Post Office Inquiry: former lawyer who advised firm challenged over role in ‘derisory’ payouts
Andrew Parsons, partner at Womble Bond Dickinson, was grilled by a lawyer for some of the victims of the Post Office scandal, over advice given to the firm on how it should behave in the mediation scheme
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They’re LIARS and CRIMINALS | Post Office IT Horizon Scandal. Andrew Parsons – 14 June 2024
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14 jun 2024
Day 2 of solicitor Andrew Parsons’ evidence during which, questioned by barrister Christopher Jacobs on behalf of 156 subpostmaster clients, it is read out an correspondence in which he goes on to ask whether the Post Office could ‘start attacking the postmasters’ credibility by calling out [Noel] Thomas, [Seema] Misra and [Jo] Hamilton as the liars and criminals that they are.’ Jo Hamilton, incidentally, was sitting in the front row of the inquiry as this was read out.
He tells the inquiry ONLY that ‘on reflection that language is too strong’…
Canular – Décharge de canon – Exploding Canon Ball Prank
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Tourist wants to have some pictures of himself shooting a museum cannon, so he asks prank victims to take a photo. As it turns out, the cannon is still in good enough working condition to shoot off a huge cannon ball into the wall, leaving a huge hole in and totally wrecking a building.
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