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Old 27th Nov 2015, 18:09
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A and C
 
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Truth, justice & Legal decisions plus a mix of politics

Courts in the UK are nothing to do with truth or justice, they are constructed to find legal decistions.

Being as one side has to prove a point and the other repute it the story's you will get from the prosecution lawyer will paint an entirely different picture than the defence lawyer and that is precicly why you can't trust what the lawyers say, with this in mind we have a jury that hopefully sees through the legal profession twisting the truth and gives a sound verdict.

Once politicians get involved things get worse, following the crash of a Cypriot airliner the Cypriot courts tried three of the directors of the airline and found them not guilty, during the investigation the Cypriot authorities looked at all involved and decided there were no further cases to answer. Because the aircraft crashed into a Greek hill the Greek courts needed to find guilty person, they wanted to try the three airline directors but could not do this as EU legislation prevents trial for the same offence in two jurisdictions. So what do they do ? Spend years trying to convict a licensed engineer who the Cypriots did no think had a case to answer. All this because the crew who made a number of mistakes were dead and could not face a court. To crown the issue the Greeks also breached EU & international law by attempting to use data from the flight safety investigation to try the engineer. Fortunately after years of chasing the engineer the case ended as the Greeks realised that there was a good chance all of europes flight deck unions would put a ban in the place and stop the tourists with the money visiting.

Justice ? Is it Justice when a court finds a person who has over medicated a late stage terminally ill loved one in order to put them out of their pain guilty of murder ? Unfortunately a murder conviction is what they will get !

I think Mr Pittsextra you might see what happens when Lawyers, courts and politicians get involved with flight safety, have a misguided journalist stir the pot and the first victim is the truth.

Fortunately the UN via ICAO & the EU split accident investigation from all the party's with their own agenda and try to ensure ( despite the worst efforts of the Greeks) that information disclosed in an accident is not used to prosecute anyone, this results in people disclosing things that their lawyers would stay silent about. This serves the cause of flight safety very well and is a pain in the butt to those with agendas.

Truth ? Well you won't get it from the courts, all you get is a leagal decision, you won't get it from a politician unless it serves their career and journalists won't let the truth get in the way of a good headline.

If you truly want the truth then the only place to get it is from the AAIB or NTSB as the only axe they have to grind is air safety.

As for Justice ? How can there be any justice for the people who unconnected with the air show at Shoreham had a jet land on them just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time ?.........There can't ! But closure for the bereaved can only come with the full truth and you won't get that by rushing the AAIB into putting out a half baked report.
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