The secretive and expensive world of the ministry of justice
Earlier this year this blog disclosed how the Ministry of Justice had quietly set up a profit making subsidiary with the aim of marketing justice to obnoxious and corrupt regimes like Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia and has now been revealed Macedonia.
This disclosure caused some embarrassment and a lot of anger that the United Kingdom government should be bidding to profit from advising countries like Saudi Arabia who lash bloggers and hold street beheadings which the UK forcibly condemn should the Islamic State do the same. The anger is most eloquently expressed on the blog of lawyer David Allen Green who runs a superb commentary on his Jack of Kent blog.
Naturally I thought it would be in the public interest to find out exactly how this rather shadowy body had been set up and what was the ministerial drive behind it.So…
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