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David, If it's shocking and puzzling to you, imagine how incomprehensible it is for taxpayers but non-lawyers like me, not to mention those for whom it is more evidence for their conspiracy theories. And it certainly seems another justification for my dubiousness about judges. Just what scale (indeed, is there any?) are they working on in this matter of sentencing?
I would like to be able to sit the whole lot of them down in a large building, each with a copy of all their cases over the previous 5 years. They would be told that they would be mercilessly cross-examined on any apparent contradictions in how they had dealt with apparently similar cases. Then all the apparently similar but contradictory cases dealt with by different judges would be similarly put to those judges to see if they could produce rational defences for their differences. I wonder how solicitors think the records of that process would make them, and citizens, feel about our system of 'justice'.
And the delays: how? why? Especially as the HMRC are in it, it surely can't be - Oh, the Courts are too busy, we don't have the staff etc.

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