Fair doesn’t really matter, does it?

First, we had judges rewriting the law. Now we have the Director of Public Prostitutions doing it. It is the law that a case must be tried on the evidence but the DPP is trying to change the definition of evidence to include the defendant’s past behaviour and events unrelated to the case in an effort to secure more convictions.
    And score Brownie points. Or let dopey old judges score them by letting defendants off after they’ve been screwed by the cost of an appeal against an obviously dodgy conviction. (Or the taxpayer has forked out the extra cash.)
    But good sense always takes a back seat when there are PC Brownie points in prospect.