Any failing organisation will continue to fail for so long as its leadership remains unaccountable for such failings. This is not a question of personal fault (although there seems to have been no shortage in Pitcher's case). The inability of so many in public life to understand this, and to heed the example set by Lord Carrington in 1982, is baffling. Ground 2 was a slam dunk.
I'm afraid I have very little sympathy for Helen Pitcher. The independent commission has, by majority, expressed its view, and that must be taken as conclusive. Her statement about her successor strikes me as an attempt to poison the well and discourage future applicants, while her desire to hold onto the JAC role is optimistic at best. No doubt she will use the podcast as a platform to air her views, but a dedicated member of the quangocracy such as her should recognise negative publicity is the death of ambition where Ministers are concerned. Richard Jenkins is right.
It does seem unfair that Helen Pitcher should take the rap for the failings of the CCRC, since, judging by the number of other appointments she held at the same time (LinkedIn), she can hardly have been there often enough to make any difference.
In a catastrophically failing criminal justice system is there any wonder that the CCRC cannot *patch* the sinking ship? A poisoned chalice if ever there was one.
If a disclosure doesn’t have to be made (because it might, for instance, embarrass the executive) how can an indictment be honestly laid? It’s time to remove the prosecutions right to determine what evidence is relevant to the defence - PACE was always a sticking plaster & those lawyers who accepted practicing under it’s absurd parameters should hang their heads in shame. The *disclosure scandal* continues to wreak destruction on people’s lives - high & low. Time to reject the absurdity of the prosecution (the executive) deciding our criminal law cases.
Any failing organisation will continue to fail for so long as its leadership remains unaccountable for such failings. This is not a question of personal fault (although there seems to have been no shortage in Pitcher's case). The inability of so many in public life to understand this, and to heed the example set by Lord Carrington in 1982, is baffling. Ground 2 was a slam dunk.
I'm afraid I have very little sympathy for Helen Pitcher. The independent commission has, by majority, expressed its view, and that must be taken as conclusive. Her statement about her successor strikes me as an attempt to poison the well and discourage future applicants, while her desire to hold onto the JAC role is optimistic at best. No doubt she will use the podcast as a platform to air her views, but a dedicated member of the quangocracy such as her should recognise negative publicity is the death of ambition where Ministers are concerned. Richard Jenkins is right.
It does seem unfair that Helen Pitcher should take the rap for the failings of the CCRC, since, judging by the number of other appointments she held at the same time (LinkedIn), she can hardly have been there often enough to make any difference.
In a catastrophically failing criminal justice system is there any wonder that the CCRC cannot *patch* the sinking ship? A poisoned chalice if ever there was one.
If a disclosure doesn’t have to be made (because it might, for instance, embarrass the executive) how can an indictment be honestly laid? It’s time to remove the prosecutions right to determine what evidence is relevant to the defence - PACE was always a sticking plaster & those lawyers who accepted practicing under it’s absurd parameters should hang their heads in shame. The *disclosure scandal* continues to wreak destruction on people’s lives - high & low. Time to reject the absurdity of the prosecution (the executive) deciding our criminal law cases.