Post Office Inquiry: former lawyer who advised firm challenged over role in 'derisory' payouts

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  • @DennisHughes-h8b
    @DennisHughes-h8b 5 місяців тому +203

    This arrogant man just shows to us all how difficult it must have been for poor Mr Alan Bates to gain information and as far as his apology to those who suffered, he did not mean a single word.

    • @lelavoir
      @lelavoir 5 місяців тому +7

      Sir Alan Bates I now read!

    • @Nicola-g7h
      @Nicola-g7h 5 місяців тому +8

      Even his "apology" is not an apology at all. "During my time acting for Post Office *we* made some mistakes along the way." He couldn't bring himself to say "I made some mistakes". Not that I would have believed any apology from him anyway.

  • @Kevin-mx1vi
    @Kevin-mx1vi 5 місяців тому +275

    Another snake who thinks that nice clothes and a law degree allow him to behave reprehensibly.

    • @barking_mad6649
      @barking_mad6649 5 місяців тому +3

      Wise words Commander o7

    • @TheKARMMARK
      @TheKARMMARK 5 місяців тому +7

      Well said.

    • @michaelmcginley7930
      @michaelmcginley7930 5 місяців тому +4

      Snake

    • @Jazz-tv4qr
      @Jazz-tv4qr 5 місяців тому +2

      Perfect!!!!

    • @greentombdive
      @greentombdive 5 місяців тому +3

      Actually, from his mouth’s habitual, mealy mouthed body-language, I would guess that’s a Poundland suit and a tie from a Burton’s sale.

  • @thomasshaw9100
    @thomasshaw9100 5 місяців тому +215

    Immoral and inexcusable. Makes me sick.

    • @williambyron564
      @williambyron564 5 місяців тому +4

      Disgusting. An apology for what precisely?

    • @derekibison6644
      @derekibison6644 5 місяців тому +6

      @@williambyron564 It will be the typical politicians sham apology. I’m sorry that you are ‘feeling’ that you’ve been let down.

  • @grahamdominy8309
    @grahamdominy8309 5 місяців тому +212

    What bloody insufferable arrognace and evasion!

    • @bootstrapperwilson7687
      @bootstrapperwilson7687 5 місяців тому +1

      @grahamdominy8309
      Is arrognace worse than arrogance? How much worse?

  • @mjlewis104
    @mjlewis104 5 місяців тому +181

    My god what an utterly cold and calculating individual....no compassion, no pity, no heart, no soul. I wonder if his wife and children are proud of him, if he has any of course.

    • @michaelmcginley7930
      @michaelmcginley7930 5 місяців тому +14

      If he has a wife then if she has any integrity she should leave him

    • @MRJERRYCURTIN
      @MRJERRYCURTIN 5 місяців тому +6

      Take his money forget what he did to fellow humans

    • @derekibison6644
      @derekibison6644 5 місяців тому +16

      I was wondering what his family make of him? What an appalling individual. Pure slime.

    • @judithmatthews8460
      @judithmatthews8460 5 місяців тому +7

      They just bank his cheque that’s their integrity.

    • @derekibison6644
      @derekibison6644 5 місяців тому +10

      @@judithmatthews8460 It’s hard to keep in mind that central to the legal process is the concept of ‘justice’. This notion has never crossed this man’s mind and for him the application of the law is purely about the presentation and manipulation of information in order to win. He needs to take a long hard look at himself, though clearly he has a marked inability to do so.

  • @stewartwallwork6505
    @stewartwallwork6505 5 місяців тому +77

    Apology given so insincere had to be dragged out.

  • @kinorspielmann4649
    @kinorspielmann4649 5 місяців тому +68

    That ever so belated apology, which had to be wrung out of him, was insincere, pitiful, mealymouthed, inadequate, disdainful, shameful.

  • @PatSvensen
    @PatSvensen 5 місяців тому +55

    I tuned in to this, not knowing who Andrew Parsons is, and thinking it would be very boring, but it's not!! It's horrifying what these crooks did to all these poor sub-postmasters. Gosh, letting all these people do sooo much work towards mediation, when a lot of the time POL had no intention whatsoever of settling.

    • @Etherdave
      @Etherdave 3 місяці тому

      You need to watch the testimony of PO's in-house lawyer, Jarnail Singh. He claimed in front of that panel, that in his entire career, he'd never learned how to save a document.

  • @marktronic9637
    @marktronic9637 5 місяців тому +61

    The man needs suspending and investigating for gross misconduct for his part in the cover up

  • @sprecklesville
    @sprecklesville 5 місяців тому +57

    Sickening and astounding levels of arrogance - I can’t even begin to imagine what sub postmasters went through trying to fight faceless bureaucrats like this with absolutely no morals or integrity - absolutely horrific

  • @sdrest
    @sdrest 5 місяців тому +126

    What a crook.

  • @Trickster60-um8yd
    @Trickster60-um8yd 5 місяців тому +138

    Disgusting! He needs his licence revoking by The Law Society; a total snake

    • @fruitychink
      @fruitychink 5 місяців тому +8

      Agree .Report to Law Society for investigation at the least

    • @jimwoods9551
      @jimwoods9551 5 місяців тому +4

      They are monitoring this inquiry.

    • @fruitychink
      @fruitychink 5 місяців тому +1

      @@jimwoods9551 I think though I may be wrong that the public can make a free standing complaint to the Law Society about the conduct of ant practicing lawyer ?

    • @ChangesOneTim
      @ChangesOneTim 5 місяців тому +2

      @@fruitychink
      Yes, to the SRA which is a statutorily independent arm of the Law Soc.

    • @exdoode
      @exdoode 4 місяці тому

      but most lawyers are like him

  • @janeday9148
    @janeday9148 5 місяців тому +26

    Andrew Parsons another name to be remembered ,has shown how some Lawyers can knowingly behave in a way that destroys innocent peoples lives ,the British Justice System has let the Country down

  • @rsb8653
    @rsb8653 5 місяців тому +62

    I watched this guy all day. In my opinion he shows sociopathic behaviour . He could not apologise and saw nothing wrong with what he did. He called postmasters criminals in writing. Horrible

    • @chrisfell5073
      @chrisfell5073 5 місяців тому

      I would call him a Psychopath!

    • @Robert-ux5yk
      @Robert-ux5yk 4 місяці тому

      I think you hit the nail on the head...there was simply a culture of sociopathic behaviour

  • @ianlister6554
    @ianlister6554 5 місяців тому +95

    Deny, deny and deny again. This slime knows he’s untouchable.

    • @Johnno85
      @Johnno85 5 місяців тому +4

      Untouchable? He’s finished in the legal sector. WBD will get rid of him sooner or later, and no other law firm will touch him.

    • @derekibison6644
      @derekibison6644 5 місяців тому +6

      @@Johnno85 It’s not just the cream that rises to the top.

  • @davidhardy6019
    @davidhardy6019 5 місяців тому +84

    The guy is a disgrace

  • @NatalieTimeBank
    @NatalieTimeBank 5 місяців тому +164

    I hope this liar is never able to work again

    • @michaelmcginley7930
      @michaelmcginley7930 5 місяців тому +6

      Or walk

    • @davymalone9322
      @davymalone9322 5 місяців тому +12

      He's just been made a partner in the firm he works for...

    • @PeterS-r4o
      @PeterS-r4o 5 місяців тому +16

      ​@@davymalone9322That firm now has the pleasure of being forever associated with the worst miscarriage of justice in British history.

    • @owstonlad3859
      @owstonlad3859 5 місяців тому +5

      @@PeterS-r4o The word is TOAST for that firm now.

    • @danmcwilliams926
      @danmcwilliams926 5 місяців тому +4

      On the contraire, he has been shown to be a bulldog for his clients, so will probably be booked up for years to come.

  • @keegan773
    @keegan773 5 місяців тому +64

    Yet another lying crook employed in the cover up of this scandal.

  • @dortchem
    @dortchem 5 місяців тому +202

    He gives ZERO f*cks about those people.

    • @MRJERRYCURTIN
      @MRJERRYCURTIN 5 місяців тому +7

      So fing arrogant Parsons

    • @bobbylockes
      @bobbylockes 5 місяців тому +2

      completely wrong. See my answer above. Parsons provides evidence that indeed PO were not acting in good faith and that their interpretation of what good faith is is completely different to what Vennells stated the mediations sessions were meant to be. Parsons is providing important evidence against the PO, in particular Paula Vennells and other senior PO staff who said the the mediation sessions were a genuine attempt to help sub postmasters. This is gold star evidence for the victims and in this clip Parson has been shown to be very honest imo, all be it in a convoluted indirect manner.

    • @cassandratq9301
      @cassandratq9301 5 місяців тому

      I just hear him deny.

    • @pisstinpete4700
      @pisstinpete4700 5 місяців тому

      A proper shylock

    • @MichaelEnright-gk6yc
      @MichaelEnright-gk6yc 5 місяців тому

      Another slippery customer shifting the blame at every opportunity.
      We made some mistakes.
      Deliberate advice to continue to victimize innocent sub postmasters

  • @RichardReid-l3c
    @RichardReid-l3c 5 місяців тому +41

    " I am not a Criminal lawyer " but he is still a LAWYER !
    He must know the LAW!

    • @guywilletts2804
      @guywilletts2804 5 місяців тому +1

      In the same way that a GP and a brain surgeon are both doctors, but a GP wouldn't try to gainsay the advice of a brain surgeon on how to treat a brain injury, so a civil litigation lawyer wouldn't gainsay the advice of a criminal law specialist on a criminal law matter.
      This specific point isn't the most astonishing point of his evidence.

    • @nickcoppard5335
      @nickcoppard5335 5 місяців тому +2

      He is a CRIMINAL AND A LIAR I MEAN LAWYER

  • @infoillness4222
    @infoillness4222 5 місяців тому +91

    If a joiner had so little mastery of his craft he would be unemployed...how much will his dreadful advice cost the Post Office and subsequently the taxpayer...??

    • @hugolindum7728
      @hugolindum7728 5 місяців тому +17

      I think the post office people are faced with the choice of exposing their behaviour as criminal, and have decided to show themselves as incompetent instead. They all have one eye on criminal prosecutions after this enquiry.

    • @infoillness4222
      @infoillness4222 5 місяців тому +8

      @@hugolindum7728 I didn't realise it took such little talent to get to the top in the wonderful meritocracy that was POL...

    • @PeterS-r4o
      @PeterS-r4o 5 місяців тому +4

      Exactly. Apart from his highly dubious ethics and morals - the advice he gave just landed the PO even deeper in the brown stuff.

  • @sash1623
    @sash1623 5 місяців тому +76

    What a hollow specimen !

    • @derekibison6644
      @derekibison6644 5 місяців тому +5

      Your four words speak more truth than his smug sophistry.

  • @northstar1950
    @northstar1950 5 місяців тому +49

    What really annoys me about this scum is that they seem to think they are above the law.

    • @tomricketts7821
      @tomricketts7821 5 місяців тому +3

      They have been for a very long time

    • @Robert-ux5yk
      @Robert-ux5yk 4 місяці тому

      Everything that is wrong in this country today..." the bubble"

    • @nhhdjdhdj6496
      @nhhdjdhdj6496 4 місяці тому

      They are above the law!! Why do you think they haven't been arrested, or questioned by police? They never will be.

  • @halfordslain7477
    @halfordslain7477 5 місяців тому +43

    I wouldn't employ him on a checkout.

  • @ContentJapaneseMaples-gk8ji
    @ContentJapaneseMaples-gk8ji 5 місяців тому +25

    As someone once said
    "a lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes they will even tell the truth" !

  • @bsimpson6204
    @bsimpson6204 5 місяців тому +30

    Sentence him to 10 years in jail and see what he has to say then

    • @nhhdjdhdj6496
      @nhhdjdhdj6496 4 місяці тому

      That won't happen. They will be protected. Why do you think none of them have ever even been interviewed by the police? Because they are Freemasons, and so are the police. The law doesn't apply to the Brotherhood.

  • @philhmp4231
    @philhmp4231 5 місяців тому +28

    This creep is either a cold and bold faced liar, or he has absolutely no understanding of the phrase "negotiating in good faith". It was nothing but a cynical fishing exercise and more cruel victimization of the victims.

  • @andersonomo597
    @andersonomo597 5 місяців тому +31

    The abuse of power by the PO is breath taking - and fish rots from the head down. Vennels and the rest of the board MUST be charged. And a big cheer for SIR Alan Bates - so incredibly well deserved!!

    • @Robert-ux5yk
      @Robert-ux5yk 4 місяці тому

      I think Vennels is a convenient scapegoat and this should go back a further 10 years

    • @andersonomo597
      @andersonomo597 4 місяці тому +1

      @@Robert-ux5yk I agree BUT Vennels with her sanctimonious attitude was incredibly derelict in her duty as PO head. She NEVER questioned anything, she protected 'the brand' at all costs, maximized profits at all costs, covered up past wrongs. It didn't start with Vennels but she continued the injustices. Yes she's in the crosshairs but yes, this needs to be rooted out to its very beginnings and THOSE people need to held to account too.

  • @ataxpayer723
    @ataxpayer723 5 місяців тому +27

    These lawyers should be disbarred. How am I not surprised that the PO entered into "mediation" when they already had decided not to negotiate in goo faith. Who made those decisions and who briefed the PO team who attended the "mediation" sessions?

    • @Robert-ux5yk
      @Robert-ux5yk 4 місяці тому

      Isn't that illegal anyway?

  • @philhmp4231
    @philhmp4231 5 місяців тому +16

    Wow! He expects fairrness. What cheek. Where was his fairness for the poor victims of his cold and callous actions? Sorry mate. You deserve nothing but a jail cell.

  • @kevind6956
    @kevind6956 5 місяців тому +27

    The Law Society should remove him. He deliberately corrupted the rules of disclosure which led to innocent people being made bankrupt & imprisoned. An arrogant, unpleasant ‘man’ who showed zero remorse.

  • @lesleydickson7746
    @lesleydickson7746 5 місяців тому +27

    It makes you wonder if the hiding of discovery materials is just normal practice. How many people countrywide have been affected by this?

  • @michaelbruce5415
    @michaelbruce5415 5 місяців тому +33

    The man talks about “good faith”. He really should not use words that he clearly does not understand.

    • @ignaciocamargo
      @ignaciocamargo 5 місяців тому +3

      You are right, he knew that what he was doing was unethical possible criminal

    • @lindaj237
      @lindaj237 5 місяців тому

      You just have to look at his face..tells you all you need to know. Hard as nails

  • @brianwynne-jones1343
    @brianwynne-jones1343 5 місяців тому +19

    Zero Accountability and no humility shadow of a man

  • @davidnixon9350
    @davidnixon9350 5 місяців тому +30

    Lies, lies, disgraceful...

  • @derekibison6644
    @derekibison6644 5 місяців тому +14

    Mr Parsons is a smug git who gets off on his clever play on words.

  • @AndrewTaylor-gc3qj
    @AndrewTaylor-gc3qj 5 місяців тому +12

    I hope the Law Society and police contact the weasel.

  • @roddersfiftynine
    @roddersfiftynine 5 місяців тому +21

    I can imagine this guy smirking as he checks his christmas bonus cheque at the same time as all thos postmasters and mistresses were shi**ing bricks inside a prison cell. I bet his family is so proud of the part he willingly played. I see his smug photo and details still proudly published on his firm`s website. What a calling-card. NOT !!

    • @Poppycat9182
      @Poppycat9182 5 місяців тому +5

      I note that the experience section on his entry on WBD website make no mention of his long association with the Post Office - I wonder why?

  • @ewaf88
    @ewaf88 5 місяців тому +30

    What a horrible creature

  • @kquat7899
    @kquat7899 5 місяців тому +15

    Parsons had been a "conduit". What he actually is is embedded in those letters.

  • @stewartwallwork6505
    @stewartwallwork6505 5 місяців тому +18

    These post office officials all well coached in truth avoidance

  • @outlaw6421
    @outlaw6421 5 місяців тому +15

    His excuses are pathetic, the man is a absolute disgrace..arrest him

    • @nhhdjdhdj6496
      @nhhdjdhdj6496 4 місяці тому

      That won't happen. They will be protected. Why do you think none of them have ever even been interviewed by the police? Because they are Freemasons, and so are the police. The law doesn't apply to the Brotherhood.

  • @williamseaborne2694
    @williamseaborne2694 5 місяців тому +11

    What a repulsive individual. He epitomises everything that is wrong with the whole Post Office scandal. Let us hope that his name will always be associated with the worst miscarriage of justice in British legal history, and not in a good way.

  • @gordonferguson4370
    @gordonferguson4370 5 місяців тому +24

    Not 1 word of an apology

    • @mikelheron20
      @mikelheron20 5 місяців тому

      You should try watching it again, this time with your hearing aid switched on.

    • @johnreed8336
      @johnreed8336 4 місяці тому

      The apology was said using empty words as it was not meant .

  • @DanSmithBK
    @DanSmithBK 5 місяців тому +19

    Makes me laugh that anyone expects anything other than scumbag behaviour from a lawyer. The basis of the profession is professional lying, and the business model is a parasitic one. Why would they do anything else, unless the money was better?

  • @m.landoorwoolf3207
    @m.landoorwoolf3207 5 місяців тому +8

    Its very tiring to hear how these witnesses can remember anything that they can use to deflect or correct any allegations but when something is raised that incriminates them, suddenly "I cannot recall...". It would be interesting to see the ratio of these points. "I cannot recall..." will no doubt out-strip the points of evidence that incriminates or deflects. Surely, "I cannot recall.." is lying on oath - but we will never know. No honour or credibility.

  • @A2Z1Two3
    @A2Z1Two3 5 місяців тому +22

    Conspiracy to pervert course of justice.
    Lock them up and throw away the key.

    • @nhhdjdhdj6496
      @nhhdjdhdj6496 4 місяці тому

      That won't happen. They will be protected. Why do you think none of them have ever even been interviewed by the police? Because they are Freemasons, and so are the police. The law doesn't apply to the Brotherhood.

  • @verylikecheryl
    @verylikecheryl 5 місяців тому +9

    Should have asked: “POL followed your advice. Miscarriages of justice resulted. Please now explain to the inquiry how you use weasel words, sophistry and cunning to wriggle out of any responsibility.”

  • @peterrowlands6406
    @peterrowlands6406 5 місяців тому +6

    How many of these criminals are still on the loose ???😡😡😡

  • @philipyoung3843
    @philipyoung3843 5 місяців тому +4

    What a disgraceful excuse for a human being, He needs to do time

  • @billywiz1307
    @billywiz1307 5 місяців тому +34

    Did he just lie there saying that he was not a criminal lawyer

    • @jamesharvey8835
      @jamesharvey8835 5 місяців тому +2

      Well, technically, he's a criminal/lawyer.

    • @cassandratq9301
      @cassandratq9301 4 місяці тому

      Not a lawyer who is a criminal - a "criminal lawyer". ☺️

  • @brianclayton1039
    @brianclayton1039 5 місяців тому +7

    Why isn't the Law Society dealing with these people?

    • @cassandratq9301
      @cassandratq9301 4 місяці тому

      They need this inquiry - and probably a recommendation from the Sir who runs it - before they can move.

  • @barryscott6222
    @barryscott6222 5 місяців тому +7

    Well... we now know why Womble/Bond Dickinson continued to be retained by POL.
    They completely understood their brief.
    While other legal representation came and went, they stayed and stayed.
    People who raised uncomfortable questions, or noticed uncomfortable truths, were quickly exited.

  • @Stevesparks100
    @Stevesparks100 5 місяців тому +15

    That’s the most disingenuous ‘apology’ I’ve ever heard.

    • @benwilson6145
      @benwilson6145 5 місяців тому +2

      He should be a Tory candidate

  • @MaryMcRobert
    @MaryMcRobert 5 місяців тому +21

    Lets cut out the technical and judicious twaddle.
    Surely this is an open and shut case for snapping this guys legs.
    Just saying.

    • @glencoe8251
      @glencoe8251 5 місяців тому +5

      Tarred and feathered.

    • @johnreed8336
      @johnreed8336 4 місяці тому

      Barred from his profession .

    • @Robert-ux5yk
      @Robert-ux5yk 4 місяці тому

      Haha...
      Looks like the only thing they'll listen to

  • @jeremygaleRVM
    @jeremygaleRVM 5 місяців тому +25

    I had to disinfect my device following this performance. This man gives beards and suits a bad name!

    • @infoillness4222
      @infoillness4222 5 місяців тому +7

      Not to mention honest Solicitors...

    • @DerrickJenkins-s6c
      @DerrickJenkins-s6c 5 місяців тому

      What a low-life Parsons is! Insufferable arrogance and no empathy whatsoever for the innocent victims. Wanted to draw out any settlement for as long as possible. Any offers made were derisory anyway. This guy had a prime role in all this but denies any responsibility whatsoever. A corporate nonentity beneath contempt.

  • @JayStapley
    @JayStapley 5 місяців тому +12

    "Good Faith"? Precious little of that...

  • @allanbennie2024
    @allanbennie2024 5 місяців тому +3

    This is the biggest scandal of justice since the Hillsborough Disaster

  • @chris-vn6sw
    @chris-vn6sw 5 місяців тому +38

    Obviously sympathetic to the Post Office agenda. 😡😡

    • @infoillness4222
      @infoillness4222 5 місяців тому

      But it's amazing how they justify their terrible advice in their own minds...pure bureaucratic evil I'm afraid...

    • @kevind6956
      @kevind6956 5 місяців тому

      @@infoillness4222It’s about ego. They have the ‘win’ by any rules, even if that m abs ignoring their legal responsibilities.

    • @infoillness4222
      @infoillness4222 5 місяців тому +1

      @@kevind6956 Let's hope the law brings them to book...

    • @kevind6956
      @kevind6956 5 місяців тому

      @@infoillness4222 I can’t see why it won’t. This is as serious as it gets.

  • @roberttracey3633
    @roberttracey3633 5 місяців тому +10

    He's hiding behind carefully chosen words and has been highlighted in his arrogance and past actions. What a silly little man

  • @GWills-ys6rd
    @GWills-ys6rd 5 місяців тому +4

    THIS PERSON MUST FACE A CRIMINAL TRIAL!

  • @johnboy5736
    @johnboy5736 5 місяців тому +25

    What a disgrace this guy is to the law in this country. Still telling lies. Is the guy still working if so he should be fired immediately. One lie after the other. Blaming someone else again. If his employer is reading this. Can you seriously have him working in your company.

  • @lastdimestudios
    @lastdimestudios 5 місяців тому +9

    Omg the corporate vocabulary this guy uses is beyond whats even on LinkedIn!!
    It reminds me of the sickening years working for businesses like the post office where everyone is institutionalised!

  • @wanderingyoutube
    @wanderingyoutube 5 місяців тому +6

    "to reinvestigate.. where there were errors on the Post Office's, we were willing to settle." but you decided already that you weren't offering a settlement in some cases, which meant you've decided that in those cases, there were no errors and no amount of 'information sharing' could have changed the outcome of the meeting

  • @wilsonmanch6773
    @wilsonmanch6773 5 місяців тому +4

    These crooks need to go to jail.

  • @markbradshaw8244
    @markbradshaw8244 5 місяців тому +11

    He’s slippery

  • @michaelmcginley7930
    @michaelmcginley7930 5 місяців тому +16

    Lets hope he is struck of .if the law society has any credibility he should be.womple bond she be boycotted

  • @shingitai5882
    @shingitai5882 5 місяців тому +7

    I hope to hear that he is disbarred for life over this, or if he isn’t it will be impossible for him to work in the law again as clients refuse to use his services.

  • @5tevieb954
    @5tevieb954 5 місяців тому +3

    Well done to Sir Alan.

  • @Bigducksrule
    @Bigducksrule 5 місяців тому +5

    If you’re found to have worked against justice how can you work in a legal system? Strip them of their right to practice law and as a country we’ll start moving forward.

  • @michaelmaycock5655
    @michaelmaycock5655 5 місяців тому +18

    Come on folks this is unfair, since when has ANYBODY expected a lawyer to have morals 🤷‍♂️😂

    • @tomricketts7821
      @tomricketts7821 5 місяців тому

      That’s why labs use them in testing because the are things that rats just won’t do

  • @davidhogan-o3x
    @davidhogan-o3x 5 місяців тому +10

    How much salary & bonus did this guy receive at the time ???

    • @howard5259
      @howard5259 5 місяців тому +1

      He's now a partner - tells you all you need to know about his firm

  • @oregonsamhain
    @oregonsamhain 5 місяців тому +3

    Protect the money, protect the brand. A soulless corporate husk of a man.

  • @splatten8597
    @splatten8597 5 місяців тому +9

    Unbelievable! Not him then! Someone else

  • @peterflynn3657
    @peterflynn3657 5 місяців тому +3

    Zero shame or repentance. Next stage should be a criminal trial.

    • @nhhdjdhdj6496
      @nhhdjdhdj6496 4 місяці тому

      That won't happen. They will be protected. Why do you think none of them have ever even been interviewed by the police? Because they are Freemasons, and so are the police. The law doesn't apply to the Brotherhood

  • @paradad999
    @paradad999 5 місяців тому +3

    What an ABSOLUTE DISGRACE!!! The people at the post office that allowed and extended this miscarriage of justice should be sent to jail as criminals! They not only destroyed many many lives but through their action or inaction caused people to take their only way out of this awful wrongdoing! On top of all this, who is paying for the enquiry?? The British taxpayer?

  • @MS-jm7me
    @MS-jm7me 5 місяців тому +24

    what a bloody farce

  • @WillyPigg83
    @WillyPigg83 5 місяців тому +8

    How are these people still practicing law. They should be in prison, let alone struck off. Absolutely no morals.

    • @marmite.
      @marmite. 5 місяців тому

      Because this is the way our law system works it's just we don't get to see this 💩 because they can hide it and we bury our head in the sand and let them do what they want.

    • @nhhdjdhdj6496
      @nhhdjdhdj6496 4 місяці тому

      That won't happen. They will be protected. Why do you think none of them have ever even been interviewed by the police? Because they are Freemasons, and so are the police. The law doesn't apply to the Brotherhood.

  • @PiperStart
    @PiperStart 5 місяців тому +8

    WBD should be charged with fraud for giving advice that is not real advice, but stuff just passed along the line.

  • @SuperAndytaylor
    @SuperAndytaylor 5 місяців тому +9

    i really hope the solicitors professional associations and regulatory bodies consider some of these witnesses to be utterly unsuitable to be trusted to work with the law honestly and be struck off from practicing again

    • @Robert-ux5yk
      @Robert-ux5yk 4 місяці тому

      They should do otherwise they will come out of this looking very poor

    • @Robert-ux5yk
      @Robert-ux5yk 4 місяці тому

      It sounds like "the firm"

  • @urkopetal6319
    @urkopetal6319 5 місяців тому +4

    That's putting it mildly, it's way beyond that.

  • @streetlegal008
    @streetlegal008 5 місяців тому +5

    The legal professionals are in a much more perilous position than the other witnesses. There are barristers and solicitors who know that they are bound to face misconduct hearings from their professional associations. That means that they may well be 'struck 0ff' from continuing in any form of legal practice. Criminal proceedings might also be brought against them for failing in their duties as officers to the Court - on such matters as failure to disclose etc.

  • @terrysmith9362
    @terrysmith9362 5 місяців тому +28

    Watch parsons being taken apart by Mr Henry a few mins later

    • @CatalinaIsland-nf8hc
      @CatalinaIsland-nf8hc 5 місяців тому +3

      More Ju-jitsu than Fujitsu! 😬

    • @infoillness4222
      @infoillness4222 5 місяців тому +1

      In past times he'd have been taken apart on the rack for what he will ultimately cost our country...

    • @PatSvensen
      @PatSvensen 5 місяців тому

      Pity I didn't see that.

    • @terrysmith9362
      @terrysmith9362 5 місяців тому

      @@PatSvensen you can google it. Start watching after about an hour

  • @MarkEastwood-ft6it
    @MarkEastwood-ft6it 5 місяців тому +1

    Anyone employing Andrew Parsons should rethink their own ethics

  • @kquat7899
    @kquat7899 5 місяців тому +7

    Shameless PoS

  • @or9835
    @or9835 5 місяців тому +4

    Looks like there is enough evidence for disbarment of this lawyer. Parsons must have been getting tired of being asked in the inquiry to confirm that what he had written black on white was what he advised black on white: to prevent disclosure, to give legal advice without stating that was actually somebody else's advice, to not find more information as that could incriminate POL, to not create a paper trail.

  • @neilmckenzie1989
    @neilmckenzie1989 5 місяців тому +4

    You attend mediation to approach with an open mind and NO preconditions. Disingenuous is putting it very mildly 😡

  • @dadangus100
    @dadangus100 5 місяців тому +5

    This lawyer should be found to be corrupt

  • @susansimpson656
    @susansimpson656 5 місяців тому +3

    Love how he plays the yes, no game

  • @Martin-v3v9p
    @Martin-v3v9p 5 місяців тому +2

    Lawyers..!!!..

  • @jeaninea5029
    @jeaninea5029 5 місяців тому +8

    What a horrible person.

  • @PeterS-r4o
    @PeterS-r4o 5 місяців тому +3

    Someone should send him a link to this so he can enjoy reading the comments.

  • @Wellygigs
    @Wellygigs 5 місяців тому +9

    Can you imagine the conversation his wife has with him when she asks “ beef or pork “

    • @lunamonkey
      @lunamonkey 5 місяців тому +2

      It’s all about the context. 😂

  • @ibrahimmoosbally1026
    @ibrahimmoosbally1026 5 місяців тому +7

    a savage donned in modern clothing, inhuman, fit for the lions of African jungle?

  • @peterflynn3657
    @peterflynn3657 5 місяців тому +2

    Extraordinary performance from this cynical lawyer

    • @johnreed8336
      @johnreed8336 4 місяці тому

      Thought of prison might be a motivating factor .

  • @DominicBerry-d5h
    @DominicBerry-d5h 5 місяців тому +1

    I’m speechless at the gall of it.
    “Not me… they went that way…”

  • @BLUESKY-zt1nv
    @BLUESKY-zt1nv 5 місяців тому +3

    what we have are Post office managers and CEOs etc etc who are far far cleverer and astute than any of the investigation team of QC's ...we can all see this in every episode we see

  • @renukaviswanathan454
    @renukaviswanathan454 5 місяців тому +5

    Are most lawyers trained to only give strategic advice and never think of delivering justice? Are they taught the meaning of that word?

    • @alanthorpe2022
      @alanthorpe2022 5 місяців тому

      As Judge Bullingham once archly advised Rumpole Of The Bailey, "this is a court of law, Mr Rumpole, not a court of justice". To which Rumpole caustically muttered "I am indebted to Your Honour for pointing out the difference". While "law is a body of regulations and standards set up by governments and international bodies and is (or should be) based on the idea of justice", it seems that the practice of law does not necessarily require the practitioner to have the requisite grasp of justice.

    • @renukaviswanathan454
      @renukaviswanathan454 5 місяців тому

      @@alanthorpe2022 How right you are! Thank you

  • @gherkamum
    @gherkamum 5 місяців тому +2

    He knew it was wrong and did nothing, still no empathy or shame.

  • @russellbertrand3242
    @russellbertrand3242 5 місяців тому +3

    all of this has transpired from the dribs and drabs of documents eked out by the guilty parties. Imagine what would be found if the whole debacle was uncovered.