Peter Cherbi

Journalist 📰
Investigations & news: Judiciary Courts Justice & Law ⚖️
Wildlife 🐘🐋🐺🐝 Nature 🌳🦉 & otters 🦦 along for the ride

[Peter Cherbi @PeterCherbi]

.@JudgesScotland How Scotland's judiciary neatly arranged it, so Lord Advocate James Wolffe's judge wife - Lady Sarah Wolffe - was to hear a £9Million claim against her own husband, & top cop @PoliceScotland

Note, Lady Wolffe avoided recusal 👩‍⚖️⚖️

https://t.co/zg1EbhKi7X

[Arma dei Carabinieri @_Carabinieri_]

Buongiorno da Siena
#Carabinieri #PossiamoAiutarvi #ForzeArmate #Difesa #3luglio

[ProPublica @propublica]

The Trump administration filed 32 appeals to the Supreme Court’s emergency docket in 2025 alone, one analysis found.

The Obama and George W. Bush administrations filed just eight petitions in 16 years, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.
https://t.co/DDeBOeEsM6

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham is set to ban Palantir from the NHS if he becomes Prime Minister

[@Telegraph]

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Defra breached law, with Tory govt was in office, when it let farmers use bee-killing pesticide, watchdog says.

This is one outcome of capture of the state by corporations, and secrecy.

Govts pursue economic growth, not resilience, at almost any cost.
https://t.co/8OPus8CZME

[金澤神社【公式】(金沢神社) @kanazawa_shrine]

おはようございます😊
金曜日です♪
楽しく１日を過ごしたいですね♪
いってらっしゃい😊

[たかたか @backingline1]

今日皆様のおかげで、
お誕生日を迎えました🗻🏍️
これからもよろしくお願いします🙏

[Peter Cherbi @PeterCherbi]

@backingline1 お誕生日おめでとうございます！🎂

[Dr Chris Day @drcmday]

This case and today's EAT judgment go to the heart of what we should expect from our legal system in the UK as doctors, patients and, frankly, as citizens.

The list of things that apparently do not materially influence the outcome of my whistleblowing case- or do not seem to trouble the judiciary- keeps growing:

1. The deletion of 90,000 emails during a court hearing, despite it being admitted.

2. The deletion of the entire NHS email account of the director responsible for running my case and instructing the NHS lawyers.

3. An NHS Chief Executive giving evidence under oath that could no longer be maintained once previously hidden documents came to light.

4. Board minutes and other documents that were denied to exist, only to surface at the end of a hearing after I had been criticised for alleging exactly what they showed.

5. Two consultant anaesthetists and a former Health Minister pointing to multiple sources of evidence that plainly contradicts Employment Tribunal findings of fact.

And now:

The failure to disclose commissioning contracts between NHS bodies- documents that, had they been disclosed, undermined the arguments used to remove me and 54,000 doctors from whistleblowing protection at taxpayer expense.

Whatever view people take of my case, these are serious issues. They raise fundamental questions about disclosure, accountability and the integrity of the legal process.

I would genuinely welcome lawyers writing about and commenting on these issues. I can tell you there are many doctors who feel deeply let down by what my case has laid bare, and they deserve an open and informed discussion about what these events say about our justice system.

As a member of BMA Council, I intend to take these issues forward.

I have lost count of the number of doctors who have told me that they believe Employment Tribunals have ignored key evidence or reached findings that they feel are impossible to reconcile with the documentary record. Whether those concerns are ultimately justified or not, the consistency with which they are raised should concern anyone interested in maintaining confidence in the justice system.

I have yet to hear of another Employment Tribunal case in which the deletion of 90,000 emails during the hearing itself has been admitted. If anyone is aware of a comparable case, I would be genuinely interested to hear about it.

Doctors and their patient's need confidence that whistleblowing cases will be decided on a complete and accurate evidential record. Public confidence in both the NHS and the legal system is at stake.

Read the recent EAT Judgment here

https://t.co/Iz2r1yG3A7

Read the Private Ear Series that explores the context more light-heartedly but with links to the legal documents

https://t.co/aneGysOIYh

[SCOTUS Wire @scotus_wire]

🚨 The Supreme Court declined to halt contempt sanctions against investigative journalist Catherine Herridge, leaving in place an order requiring her to pay $800 per day unless she reveals a confidential source. Justice Kavanaugh dissents.

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

Do elephants who need treatment recognise that we're trying to help?

Sometimes, yes! In July 2023, a bull elephant appeared at the Ithumba stockades with an arrow wound. He quickly disappeared back into the wilderness and then, days later, turned up again, this time in the company of ex-orphans Zurura and Kasigau. He proceeded to walk inside one of the stockades (almost unheard-of for a wild elephant), and patiently waited. He could not have made it more clear that he was asking for help!

While a treatment unfolded, ex-orphans Zurura and Kasigau stood stood sentry. Once the operation was complete, they stood by until the bull got back to his feet. Together, they walked back into the Tsavo wilderness.

One week later, the bull came by again, already healing. What we have learned from these moments is that elephants have an awe-inspiring intuition and capacity for trust in those who earn it. We are honoured that this bull came to us in his hour of need and thanks to our donors, we were able to answer the call, providing life-saving treatment on our very doorstep.

Elephants don't forget those that helped them. Donate and be part of a community they remember: https://t.co/NVpsbuFaAn

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

The captured Court and its billionaire controllers would love other justices to treat what’s happened to the Court as normal. “Nothing to see here, folks. Just us being conservative. Ask our pals.”
https://t.co/15IOGkx92I

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

When an MP can pocket more in a couple of hours of “work” than a nurse earns in an entire year - as Nigel Farage has done - something is deeply broken in our politics.

This has to stop. It’s time to ban ALL MPs’ second jobs.

From my speech in Parliament today.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Labour failed to prepare for power, says Keir Starmer's former top-aide.

Wrong to pick fight with party dissenters, pensioners, children, the disabled. Chose to freeze personal allowance; didn't stop rip-off by water/energy companies.
https://t.co/rl1D4M3LtX

[Polizia di Stato @poliziadistato]

Buongiorno con il sorriso di Lucia della
#PoliziaStradale #essercisempre #2luglio

[ProPublica @propublica]

Our new analysis found that the Supreme Court is deciding more cases through largely unsigned orders than through its standard procedure.

Many have allowed the Trump administration to enact some of its most controversial policies.
https://t.co/rcPLL0toy3

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

The shadow docket is one problem. The other is a Supreme Court making up facts that aren’t factual, in secret, and outside proper judicial fact-finding process. They get the last say, so they just make it up. (E.g.: how is dark money transparent?)

[Scottish Express @ScotExpress]

Police Scotland spent £700,000 in legal fees for employment tribunals https://t.co/l1pDI8l9xf

[Raptor Persecution UK @RaptorPersUK]

Another young satellite-tagged Golden Eagle from south Scotland translocation project found injured with 17 shotgun pellets embedded in wings & body.

Police Scotland press release + commentary from me ⬇️

https://t.co/IkEK14AQUv

[marion scott @ladymcbeth2]

15 years after the Crown Office insisted there was not enough evidence to prosecute Scotland striker David Goodwillie for rape, they now admit there was. BBC Scotland’s Martin Geissler asks me about the controversial case heading for private prosecution. https://t.co/vrfw9DZcGs

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: We found that the Supreme Court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation of how they voted or the reasons why. https://t.co/bOHVbyqEtz