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UK government broke the law by failing to disclose PPE contracts, court rules


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58 minutes ago, flossie35 said:

It's corruption such as we haven't seen in the UK for several centuries. These people should be in jail.

 

This goes on in every government, we only hear about things like this when pressure is applied or someone gets caught with their finger in the cookie jar, and when you weigh up the jail time, well it can work out to 2 million pounds a year for sitting in a cell, eating crappy food and bending over for some, now for 2 million pounds a year x 5 years, would be tempting for some, I suppose they could call it early retirement ????

 

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13 hours ago, Sujo said:

What do you expect from the court?

A reasonable summing up because of the circumstances of course.

 

"The judge said it was 'understandable that attention was focused on procuring what was thought necessary to save lives'."

 

What do the UK public think, they couldn't care less less as long as NHS & health workers were getting protection.

 

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7 hours ago, candide said:

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Martin Chamberlain QC has been appointed as a Justice of the High Court, with effect from 1 October 2019. The appointment was made by The Queen on the recommendation of the Lord Chancellor, following a competition run by the Judicial Appointments Commission. The Lord Chief Justice will assign him to the Queen’s Bench Division.

https://www.brickcourt.co.uk/news/detail/martin-chamberlain-qc-appointed-to-the-high-court

This is opposition MP's doing what during a pandemic, it's pitiful.

 

At a hearing earlier this month, the Good Law Project and three MPs - Labour's Debbie Abraham's, the Green Party's Caroline Lucas (pictured) and Liberal Democrat Layla Moran - argued there had been a 'dismal' failure by the DHSC to comply with the obligation.

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1 hour ago, Kwasaki said:

A reasonable summing up because of the circumstances of course.

 

"The judge said it was 'understandable that attention was focused on procuring what was thought necessary to save lives'."

 

What do the UK public think, they couldn't care less less as long as NHS & health workers were getting protection.

 

And there i was thinking the court decides matters of law.

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5 minutes ago, Sujo said:

And there i was thinking the court decides matters of law.

Don't know whether you're just a wind up or not. 

The courts do decide on matters of law and the meaning of law is based on what is reasonable.

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12 hours ago, KhaoYai said:

I think that was in relation to vaccines not PPE - the UK didn't make such a good job of procuring PPE.

 

You do realise that in one of the cases is question, a middleman was paid £27,000,000  jn commission don't you?  The matter is far from over.

and people complain here when they have to employ a 'middleman' to procure a dodgy visa extension lol..

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5 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

Don't know whether you're just a wind up or not. 

The courts do decide on matters of law and the meaning of law is based on what is reasonable.

A judge does not decide on whether a law is reasonable. They decide on the law.

 

A jury decides reasonable, as in reasonable doubt.

 

A judge has no option but to rule on law. At sentencing they can consider circumstances. But that is a different issue.

 

To put it bluntly. A judge rules on law. A jury rules on facts.

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