Justice

Subject: Justice

Shooting yourself in the foot seems to be par for the course for Mrs May.
She has just appointed a retired judge, Sir Martin Moore-Bick to undertake a review of events surrounding the Grenfell Tower fire.
The problem with his appointment is his history pertaining to the sort of people who are closest effected the tenants of the burnt out flats. He was castigated by the Supreme Court in 2014 for a decision he made to relocate a Congolese refugee from Westminster where she was living, to Milton Keynes 50 miles away. The decision was flawed.  To have a decision turned on its head, not because it was a question of legal interpretation but because the Senior Court in the Land thought his decision had not taken the Congolese woman's situation, (she had five school going children and a web of relatives close by in Westminster), into consideration.
Just the sort of empathetic Etonian to decide on the fate of who is to blame for the fire and what are the rights of the tenants in terms of rehousing.
He was accused of "social cleansing" in terms of the case in 2014, how on earth can a man with this pedigree be placed in charge of such a socially sensitive case. The whole weight of argument levied against the authorities who controlled the Borough of  Kensington and Chelsea was that they were indifferent to the plight of the type of people who lived in Grenfell Tower, people who cast the same shadow as the Congolese women over whom he had ruled so unsympathetically.
It's as if Mrs May and her adviser's have a death wish, or perhaps the truth is they just don't care. 

His remit has largely been commercial cases, shipping and the like. Perhaps his expertise is to be used to find wiggle room to get the council off a claim of Culpable Homicide by blinding us with a complicated regulation agenda, losing sight of the plight of the human beings who lost their lives and the ones who survived but will be scarred for ever by events that need not have happened.
Justice is a valuable thing it's the glue which holds society together and if it loses traction in sections of our society then we are in for a rocky uncomfortable journey.