BBC News: SFO unlawful in ending BAE probe
Very good news:
The High Court has ruled that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) acted unlawfully by dropping a corruption probe into a £43bn Saudi arms deal.
Read the rest (not many details yet).
Update: Corner House and CAAT press release.
Posted on April 10th, 2008 at 10:22 am
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Now that is some fantastic news. Will this mean it gets reopened? Or is that just wishful thinking…
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I’m wishing and hoping.
Since the Ministry of Justice has never been much prone to qualms about acting unlawfully, I should think the ruling will be read with an amused sneer and filed in the latest volume of Mildly Annoying Judicial Nitpicks.
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Oddly, I’m still to see any quote (or even a “no comment”) from the Father Of The Nation or his fat flatmate.
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Petition on the matter:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/allowsfotodojob
as soon as the goons at Number 10 approve it.
It’s essentially a re-opening of http://petitions.pm.gov.uk:80/SFOruleoflaw/ with “Yes, we were right, it wasn’t compliant with the law, and can you let them get on with their bloody job without being leaned on by foreign powers who are the subject of the investigation” addenda
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Cheers Martin. I’ll link to the petition when it’s approved.