Shadow Play
“They were good for his profile, so he did them when he could not farm them out.
‘The mandate of the Crown Prosecution Service,’ he was fond of beginning in a good, loud voice, ‘is to prosecute without fear or favour, according to the evidence, those who break the criminal law. Evidence is supplied to us by the police. It is we who decide what to do with it.’ He made the process sound civilised and eminently streamlined. What he did not say was that his own office was drowning in paper. They wer...e more vulnerable to paper than they were to heart attacks. The paper would kill them first.
‘Our office is computerised, of course,’ he would say, remembering not to cringe. So it was, in a manner of speaking. The computer received information and dictated the next move for every case: they all had pathetic faith in it without any understanding, but it did not obviate the necessity for portable paper to go to and from courtrooms and barristers’ chambers, fraying in a dozen sets of hands, often without a duplicate, until finally it was filed in the vast areas of the basement where Redwood never trod.MoreLess
‘The mandate of the Crown Prosecution Service,’ he was fond of beginning in a good, loud voice, ‘is to prosecute without fear or favour, according to the evidence, those who break the criminal law. Evidence is supplied to us by the police. It is we who decide what to do with it.’ He made the process sound civilised and eminently streamlined. What he did not say was that his own office was drowning in paper. They wer...e more vulnerable to paper than they were to heart attacks. The paper would kill them first.
‘Our office is computerised, of course,’ he would say, remembering not to cringe. So it was, in a manner of speaking. The computer received information and dictated the next move for every case: they all had pathetic faith in it without any understanding, but it did not obviate the necessity for portable paper to go to and from courtrooms and barristers’ chambers, fraying in a dozen sets of hands, often without a duplicate, until finally it was filed in the vast areas of the basement where Redwood never trod.MoreLess
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