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VERY well and unambiguously said, Baroness Carr. It always was and remains intolerable, whatever the perceived parliamentary and/or electorate pressures, for inaccurate and rabble rousing condemnations of the judiciary’s rulings to be uttered in the first instance, let alone then disseminated by those who DO (e.g.,

Starmer) and OUGHT (i.e., Badenoch) to know better. As for the press there is arguably a similar mischief here to the “enemies of the people” attack dog line. With current misinformed and irresponsible media involvement, it may be more insidious as contrasted with being so glaringly wrong. As to the Post Office, troubling, rule of law bypassing legislation, I always was and REMAIN in the LCJ’s camp over this. Apart from this dangerous and so TEMPTING precedent for this and any other government finding itself as it sees it in extremis, who -seriously- accepts the premise that this massive failure of , in particular, technology but also as suspected legal integrity, is “unique”. Why should there not be another equally egregious “bus along in a minute? What of as a looming example the now questioned Post Office’s other OTHER computerised adventure with Capture? I think we should be told.

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