EA or the Post Office - compare and contrast?

[Tubbylew]

What do u mean “sometimes”????
Deep pockets win every time, justice doesnt exist in britain if you arent loaded.

I don't agree with everything you say @glasshouse but you are bang on the money. The whole system is skewed against the ordinary person, but thank goodness there are people brave and stubborn enough to stand up for what is right.

 

[renewablejohn]

How is that possible?

pm sent

 

[renewablejohn]

I don't agree with everything you say @glasshouse but you are bang on the money. The whole system is skewed against the ordinary person, but thank goodness there are people brave and stubborn enough to stand up for what is right.

Standing up for what is right is the easy part its the deep pockets required for the most simple of cases which I object to. As for getting Justice against a Solicitor you can certainly forget that through the Manchester Courts now that so many Judges have been plucked from the solicitor ranks. Even help from my local MP is a joke as he has to uphold the moral standards of his fellow solicitors in preference to assisting a constituent obtaining Justice.

 

[glasshouse]

Standing up for what is right is the easy part its the deep pockets required for the most simple of cases which I object to. As for getting Justice against a Solicitor you can certainly forget that through the Manchester Courts now that so many Judges have been plucked from the solicitor ranks. Even help from my local MP is a joke as he has to uphold the moral standards of his fellow solicitors in preference to assisting a constituent obtaining Justice.

Justice is an illusion in the uk.
The post office policy, in the event they lost was to keep appealing until the post master ran out of cash.

 

[ajcc]

Audiobooks. “ The Secret Barrister.” is a very informative and interesting listen to explain the vagaries and shortcomings for anyone unfortunate enough to have to engage with “the law.”
Wish I had found it 5 years earlier!

 

[BrianV]

Cameron & the Tories were elected in 2010 & yet only now after a TV program embarrasses them do they even consider it urgent to do something about it, says pretty much all you need to know about modern politicians.

 

[steveR]

Cameron & the Tories were elected in 2010 & yet only now after a TV program embarrasses them do they even consider it urgent to do something about it, says pretty much all you need to know about modern politicians.

Been ever the case I am afaid.....

 

[glasshouse]

Its a fecking disgrace that they still havent been exonarated or compensated.

 

[Bruce Almighty]

Cameron & the Tories were elected in 2010 & yet only now after a TV program embarrasses them do they even consider it urgent to do something about it, says pretty much all you need to know about modern politicians.

I thought the Horizon system was introduced in the Blair years ?

 

[glasshouse]

I thought the Horizon system was introduced in the Blair years ?

99 yes, but the story didnt get out till 2009 in private eye.

 

[Bruce Almighty]

99

So I was right then.

 

[br jones]

ed davey was in charge from 2010 ,needs locking up

 

[glasshouse]

So I was right then.

Partially

 

[Bruce Almighty]

Partially

When was it brought to light - before or after 2010 ?

 

[glasshouse]

When was it brought to light - before or after 2010 ?

2009

 

[glasshouse]

The post office slipped the extra cash they stole into profits and bonuses

 

[Bruce Almighty]

2009

So should Labour be called out for it ?

For what it’s worth I think they are all as bad as each other.

Snouts in the trough
Feathering their own nest
Etc

 

[Bruce Almighty]

As someone mentioned elsewhere, time for a programme called Mr Price v The EA

 

[Tubbylew]

Standing up for what is right is the easy part its the deep pockets required for the most simple of cases which I object to. As for getting Justice against a Solicitor you can certainly forget that through the Manchester Courts now that so many Judges have been plucked from the solicitor ranks. Even help from my local MP is a joke as he has to uphold the moral standards of his fellow solicitors in preference to assisting a constituent obtaining Justice.

My forebears know firsthand how corrupt and underhand it can be sadly. This particular case started in the late 1950's and didn't conclude until the early 1980's. Justice isn't for the faint-hearted.

 

[crashbox]

It's right what you chaps say about the likes of EA and natural England. We are just a bunch of little people putting up with their rules they make up and we just have to accept it or we are braking the law. We look at other countries with dictators in charge, but our country isn't much better with politicians feathering their own nests.

@haybob talk about taking freedom of speech for granted!

In a dictatorship (or de facto one) you are not even allowed to discuss such things.

We are lucky in many, many ways.