Lest we need a reminder that the problems [throughout the entire period of the Horizon Scandal] are current and serious, let me end with two more examples. This is what I said…
First, in recent days the PO and their lawyers were reminded (I am going to say warned) publicly by the SRA about their conduct, this included potentially misleading SPMs whilst handling their claims.
And the second example is even more astonishing, I am aware of a journalist reporting on the PO Inquiry having been threatened with SLAPP- like tactics in relation to their reporting of the Inquiry.
Foolish, unethical, come-and-have-a-go-if-you-are-hard-enough adversarialism is alive and well, under our noses, from the very firms who should be more alive than any to its dangers.
Complacency or perhaps hubris, rules.
