One government after another has failed to heed the ever more pressing need for public funding of essential professional services in this area. I speak drawing upon decades of personal and representative engagement in the struggle where the brick wall we all confronted reflected the obduracy and calculated dismissal of both principal parties. I am relieved in the extreme no longer for several years no longer to have to shoulder that - largely thankless- burden. There is more: experienced ever increasingly during my forty seven (sic) years of practice was the syndrome where up to charging there had been no sense or sign of urgency visible to the naked eye but then once a case had impacted with the court face all of a sudden - whatever the absence of disclosure- the case HAD to to accelerate towards disposal with the earlier delay by then have made the task of the defence doubly complex ( witnesses harder to trace, their memories vaguer, cctv footage having been destroyed- you name it). Nonetheless there absolutely then HAD to be an unconscionable gallop to the finish line. Add to that already exasperating scenario the wilful blaming of “the defence” (always a handy scapegoat) and austerity but - as I suspect also ideological - driven underfunding of all service providers and no wonder “stain” on the cause of justice is the noun most readily to hand. Okay: rant over- you can all come out again now.
One government after another has failed to heed the ever more pressing need for public funding of essential professional services in this area. I speak drawing upon decades of personal and representative engagement in the struggle where the brick wall we all confronted reflected the obduracy and calculated dismissal of both principal parties. I am relieved in the extreme no longer for several years no longer to have to shoulder that - largely thankless- burden. There is more: experienced ever increasingly during my forty seven (sic) years of practice was the syndrome where up to charging there had been no sense or sign of urgency visible to the naked eye but then once a case had impacted with the court face all of a sudden - whatever the absence of disclosure- the case HAD to to accelerate towards disposal with the earlier delay by then have made the task of the defence doubly complex ( witnesses harder to trace, their memories vaguer, cctv footage having been destroyed- you name it). Nonetheless there absolutely then HAD to be an unconscionable gallop to the finish line. Add to that already exasperating scenario the wilful blaming of “the defence” (always a handy scapegoat) and austerity but - as I suspect also ideological - driven underfunding of all service providers and no wonder “stain” on the cause of justice is the noun most readily to hand. Okay: rant over- you can all come out again now.