You’d Think Working There, They’d Be Better At Any such Cover Up

After all, they have so much data to draw on of how it's done, and even more, how it’s not done and can result in you getting caught, thanks to the people they deal with daily:

The body running courts in England and Wales has been accused of a cover-up, after a leaked report found it took several years to react to an IT bug that caused evidence to go missing, be overwritten or appear lost.

Wait, isn’t that likely to mean justice hasn’t been served? Reader, indeed so… 

Sources within HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) say that as a result, judges in civil, family and tribunal courts will have made rulings on cases when evidence was incomplete.

Shouldn’t that worry those engaged in administering justice? Yes, it should. Yet it doesn’t appear to have done so… 

The internal report, leaked to the BBC, said HMCTS did not know the full extent of the data corruption, including whether or how it had impacted cases, as it had not undertaken a comprehensive investigation. It also found judges and lawyers had not been informed, as HMCTS management decided it would be "more likely to cause more harm than good".

Cause more harm to whom? Well, one has to assume they mean ‘the managers of HMCTS', and not those facing trial!  

HMCTS says its internal investigation found no evidence that "any case outcomes were affected as a result of these technical issues".

Did they actually look for any?  

The Social Security and Child Support (SSCS) Tribunal - which handles benefit appeals - is thought to have been most affected.

Well, we all know who will benefit from this, don’t we Reader? That’s right. Lawyers.