Ethics UK

Championing ethics & tackling NDA misuse in the UK. Advocating for transparency and fairness. #EthicsMatter #TransparencyUK

[Ethics UK @EthicsUK]

#PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal

[El Shaikh @ElCShaikh]

🆘 Thanks @stugoo17 for your superb analysis of a deeply disappointing ruling. The path of the Horizon scandal is strewn with lives ruined by POL’s withholding of legally privileged material. Today, in broad daylight, it simply defaults to the behaviours of its malevolent past:

[El Shaikh @ElCShaikh]

1/2 The Information Commissioner has today reprimanded the Cabinet Office for failing to conduct sufficiently thorough searches in response to an FOI regarding the Post Office Inquiry:

[Ethics UK @EthicsUK]

I use ChatGPT Work to test real conduct against the standards public bodies claim to follow.
It helps me sort years of records, find conflicts and work out the next steps.
It takes minutes to produce work that would take me weeks / months.

[Ethics UK @EthicsUK]

@thsottiaux ChatGPT Sol just noticed on my elderly father's medical records that he'd been prescribed 3x the dose of medication he needed. Held off from giving the meds -Doctor confirmed mistake - crisis avoided. Invaluable.

[Ethics UK @EthicsUK]

I’m using Codex with GPT-5.6 to compare real-world practices against organisations’ purported ethical standards. It identifies the governing claims, tests them against the evidence and isolates contradictions with remarkable precision. The results are extraordinary.

[El Shaikh @ElCShaikh]

1/3 All respect to the formidable Betty Brown who receives her OBE today for Services to Justice:

[Emma @MrsEmmaWebber]

This is the tip of the iceberg.
It breaks my heart that staff made a choice to access my beautiful boy’s records, just to ‘see what had happened’ to him.
What also breaks my heart is that it has taken a public inquiry to uncover the true scale of failure across every single agency.
Until today there has been no formal accountability.
We won’t stop until all of the failures are exposed.
In the memory of Barney, Grace and Ian.
#nottinghaminquiry 💛💚

[El Shaikh @ElCShaikh]

In June the Post Office will be challenging the Information Commissioner at Tribunal because it is adamant it will not disclose a short redacted piece of information. The ICO ordered it to do so on grounds of Public Interest.
We’re starting to see why…. https://t.co/XdOwB97bmZ

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

A tax barrister sued me personally for £8m for libel after we linked him to a tax avoidance scheme.

Today the High Court struck out the claim, granted summary judgment, and ruled it was a SLAPP. The judgment is highly critical.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

A solicitor, Andrew Milne has been bullying leaseholders across Sheffield into paying him extraordinary sums, with no legal basis.

Why hasn't the SRA stopped him? Because he's conducted an extraordinary campaign against the SRA. 180 complaints. Two judicial reviews.

More here:

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Introducing character cameos, now available in the Sora app.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

Law firm Axiom Ince collapsed with £64m of client money missing.

The accountants never audited the accounts - they wrongly claimed exemption. The SRA didn’t notice.

The accountants regulatory fined them a pathetic £4,300.

A double regulatory failure.

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[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

Juries are randomly selected members of the public. Men and women from all walks of life and all political backgrounds.

Only a moron of irredeemable proportions would even think of suggesting that a jury verdict represents some deep state “two-tier justice”.

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

Evil always takes advantage of ambiguity.

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

Missing evidence. Partial files. Lawyers & judges not told.

A whistleblower said: "They're not worried about risk to the public, they're worried about people finding out’

@AlexChalkChelt excellent on this on R4: HMCTS cannot mark their own homework.
https://t.co/2oRxwsCz9f

[Tom Hayes @robilypj]

We won! Thanks to everyone.

[Monsieur Cholet @stugoo17]

#PostOfficeScandal #MrBatesvsThePostOffice
Congrats to Sir Alan as he adds to his collection of Honorary Degrees (3) and other awards and rewards for his campaigning.

Presumably though he his still no closer to adding 100% of his rumoured £3.2 Million Compensation claim to the collection.

@UniofExeter @PostOffInquiry @voiceofthePM @biztradegovuk @liambyrnemp @CommonsBTC @darrenpjones @biztradegovuk @MarkKleinmanSky @SkyNewsAdele @NFSP_UK @TomWitherow @nickwallis

[El Shaikh @ElCShaikh]

An important FOI revelation: 

Both UKGI’s Richard Callard & its former General Counsel, Richard Watson (now full-time District Judge), are exposed as having misled the Post Office Inquiry with regards to their knowledge of the existence of the Swift Review.