Should our Courts be privatised ???

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Member Since: August 2012 Posts: 7,081 Send Message	OneFootInTheGrave	Report	28 May 2013 06:32
	In my honest opinion this is a step too far :-\| what next, maybe they will sell off all the Parliamentary Constituency Seats and Government Ministers Jobs :-\| It is being reported in the Times today that Courts in England and Wales are facing wholesale privatisation under revolutionary plans that would end the system that has existed since Magna Carta. The idea would establish the courts service as a commercial enterprise, paying its way and freed from Treasury control, with court buildings and thousands of staff put in the hands of private companies. It would save the Ministry of Justice £1 billion a year. Funding for the courts would be generated by bigger fees from wealthy litigants and private sector investment, with hedge funds encouraged to invest by an attractive rate of return. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article3776508.ece Should our Justice System be controlled by Commercial interests?
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Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 27,883 Send Message	DIZZI	Report	28 May 2013 07:37
	Hmmmm now we bought a set of furniture from courts years ago and it was rubbish,DIDNT know they were still in business, Excuse any errors can't get caps lock to work so have a job reading
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Member Since: August 2012 Posts: 7,081 Send Message	OneFootInTheGrave	Report	28 May 2013 07:55
	:-D :-D :-D
	Researching: I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 29,988 Send Message	+++DetEcTive+++	Report	28 May 2013 10:23
	How are they expecting a 'profit' to be made from running the Courts? Would the intention be to pay all current employees the minimum wage? Who is going to have to top that up? The Government of course!
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Member Since: November 2011 Posts: 3,256 Send Message	Graham	Report	28 May 2013 10:29
	How much will it cost for a not guilty verdict? :-S
Member Since: August 2012 Posts: 7,081 Send Message	OneFootInTheGrave	Report	28 May 2013 10:49
	It is not Tory activists that are swivel-eyed loons - it is the ministers in this government :-S
	Researching: I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"
Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 1,394 Send Message	BarneyKent	Report	28 May 2013 16:23
	Of course all courts should be privatised. Who wants to play tennis on a court that is run by the local council?
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 2,701 Send Message	Budgie Rustler	Report	28 May 2013 17:00
	Sounds like a recipe for corruption to me, you know,the usual sort of goings on you get in any business which becomes profit motivated. Under the counter deals etc .
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Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 73,136 Send Message	AnnCardiff	Report	28 May 2013 17:07
	definitely should not be privatised - perish the thought
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Member Since: December 2007 Posts: 87,799 Send Message	Dermot	Report	28 May 2013 18:14
	BudgieRustler - sorry, no more room under the counter. That's full of rude lad mags & cheap cancer prone cigarettes.
Member Since: May 2005 Posts: 3,549 Send Message	Nolls from Harrogate	Report	28 May 2013 18:29
	Oh well why not everything else seems to be - what does it matter the Country's going to wrack and ruin anyway.....Sorry just getting very down at the state of everything :-(
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Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20,705 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	28 May 2013 20:02
	Agree with Budgie. How are they meant to make a profit? It'll end up like the banks - we (the public) will pay for the non-profit making part, while 'others' cream off any profit :-P
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