No Fault, No Blame, No Records - No Accountability!


Scotland's Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) is part of the Scottish Government and with every day that passes the people in charge are giving the notion of 'good government' a bad name.

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No Fault, No Blame and No Records (16/02/21)

Alex Massie pokes fun at the latest Scottish Government scandal while making a very serious point - how can fault be admitted and yet no one be at fault? 

"Remarkably, if revealingly, lawyers for Whitehouse and Clark have claimed that meetings to discuss the case chaired by Mulholland went unminuted. Or, at the very least, any minutes have not been released. If so, if confirmed, that is worth more than a raised eyebrow. Once again, where is the accountability and how could anyone sensibly think that a prudent basis upon which to proceed?"

Apparently the costs of this catastrophic failure are likely to rise towards £100 million which is an eye-watering sum of public money - with not a thing to show for such enormous expense.

£100 million would pay for a large chunk of Glasgow's outstanding equal pay bill, for example, but yet again there is zero accountability from public officials and their political masters despite their hugely costly 'mistake'.  

The other shocking aspect of this malicious prosecution is that yet again there appears to be no proper written record of crucial meetings - something which has come back to haunt the First Minister and the Scottish Government during the Salmond inquiry. 

 

Siri, Define 'Criminal' (10/02/21)

Scotland's Lord Advocate (a member of Nicola Sturgeon's cabinet) admits a Crown Office prosecution was malicious forcing the public purse to pay out £24 million in damages and costs.

Yet no 'criminality' was found, so they say, but how can that be - do they think we're all daft?

Because the definition of malicious is 'characterised by malice or intended to do harm'.

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