Comments by "Aden Wellsmith" (@adenwellsmith6908) on "At the post office inquiry" video.

  1. 1. Will Judges be called to give evidence? Since there has clearly been a failure to ensure a fail trial, that's their job. They need to be called. 2. IT design. A failure of IT design is the start of the problem. 3. CPS. Starmer was in charged. Will he be called for those failures? 4. IT project management. Again clear failures. What recommendations will be made. 5. It's systemic. What other cases are involved? Starmer boasted about 4 million prosecutions under his reign. How many of those are tainted in similar ways. 6. Which ministers knew? 8. Which civil servants knew? So far they are just going after the little people.
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  2. It's wider than that.
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  3.  @RichardFraser-y9t  DPS computing. That needs to be raised with the inquiry head. It looks like some of those responsible have pressurised Google. The Judge needs to call in Google and get the explanation. That would cause a certain amount of brown trousers in Google.
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  4.  @tomhermens7698  No Post Office is a nationalised company Royal Mail was sold off.
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  5.  @markkelly9095  Nearly 100 cases and counting. A signicant proportion of the prosecutions For the involvement, its 100% The CPS have to be notified of the private prosecutions, and make a decision on taking over the case. So they were involved in all the cases. On the judges, one role of the judge is a fair trial. Not forcing disclosure is the big issue.
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  6.  @Jon-xw9om  No. The CPS must be informed and the CPS have to make a decision on taking over the prosecution. They can choose not to. That means in ALL cases the CPS was involved.
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  7.  @Jon-xw9om  A private prosecution is a prosecution started by a private individual, or entity who/which is not acting on behalf of the police or other prosecuting authority. A 'prosecuting authority' includes, but is not limited to, an entity which has a statutory power to prosecute. There are a number of organisations that regularly prosecute cases before the courts of England and Wales but they do so as private individuals, using the right of any individual to bring a private prosecution. One example is the RSPCA. The right to bring private prosecutions is preserved by section 6(1) of the Prosecution of Offences Act (POA) 1985. There are, however, some limitations: the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has power under section 6(2) POA 1985 to take over private prosecutions; in some cases, the private prosecutor must seek the consent of the Attorney General or of the DPP before the commencement of proceedings. In principle, there is nothing wrong in allowing a private prosecution to run its course through to verdict and, in appropriate cases, sentence. The fact that a private prosecution succeeds is not an indication that the case should have been prosecuted by the CPS. Parliament has specifically allowed for this possibility by the way section 6 is constructed: there is no requirement for the CPS to take over a private prosecution. However, there will be instances where it is appropriate for the CPS to exercise the Director's powers under section 6(2) POA 1985, either to continue the prosecution or to discontinue or stop it. The key point is that when asked to do so, the CPS must make a decision on whether or not to take over a private prosecution. The decision whether or not to take over a private prosecution should be made by the reviewing lawyer and endorsed/ratified by a Chief Crown Prosecutor (CCP) (or Deputy CCP (DCCP)) or relevant Head of Casework Divisions (HoD) (or their Deputy) and recorded in writing.
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  8.  @Jon-xw9om  Ah bless. A civil servant pops their head above the trench.
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