Within the last month, we have seen Rotherham council branded as “not fit for purpose”, the National Health Service (NHS) management blamed for unnecessary deaths, the NHS accused of (still) being tough on whistleblowers, banks accused of helping tax dodgers, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) not prosecuting the rich and political donors accused of tax dodging. The link between them all is that there is a culture of “turning a blind eye” by institutions helping themselves or elites while damaging the public in the process. Those involved are also in denial.

This culture is found in all sectors but not in the legal profession it seems – I cannot recall a single case of a whistleblower in that profession – and a factor why the following is to be found in my book:

Loyalty in the legal world is distorting its own peculiar sense of reality. Loyalty is the legal world's gravity: it holds that world together; it is omnipotent; it cannot be seen but its effects are observable; it can be a powerful force of destruction. As it grows stronger and more powerful, one can only hope such a strange world will be ultimately crushed by its own “weight”.

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