Thread by @CliveWismayer

I’m 12 pages into Jo Maugham’s 189-page witness statement. He says in it that he has been litigating against the govt. his entire professional life but has never encountered conduct of the type he describes. I summarise:

Apr 2020 - govt. awards Pestfix a contract to supply ..

https://twitter.com/jolyonmaugham/status/1334175175512911874

2 million isolation suits as PPE.

Jun - The GLP issues judicial review (JR) proceedings challenging various aspects of the award of this & other contracts to Pestfix.

In the course of the JR claim both the DHSC & Pestfix claim the contract has been performed satisfactorily. ..

Nov 2020 - meanwhile the BBC (for whom 3 cheers, even from me) has made a FOI request of the HSE & obtained documents, mostly emails, showing:

• the isolation suits were no such thing
• they were accepted as fit for use as disposable coveralls only (any medic types ..

.. who want to butt in here & tell us the difference, please blaze away, although I suspect we can imagine)
• AND most egregious, the emails record unnamed persons within DHSC leaning on the HSE to falsely aver that the Pestfix PPE had been accepted when it had not.

Jo can’t ..

.. use such language but I can - this is a govt. department & its contractor deliberately lying to the court, also leaning on civil servants to lie too.

It’s the prorogation all over again, in which no one could be found to verify the pitiful fistful of documents the govt. ..

.. coughed up to prove its decision was lawful.

I hope the court goes apeshit. I’ll read the next part of the evidence if I can access it & summarise.