Late today the PSA forwarded to the Minister of Justice Matt Robson, a number of serious concerns the union has about the breakdown of service delivered in CPS.

"Our members have forwarded through the union, their real concerns about individual offenders and the breaching of the conditions of their sentences". said Richard Wagstaff PSA National Secretary.

"Our members concern is such that, depite being on strike, they have in their own time, attempted to contact some of these high risk offenders in order to monitor them"

"We are not confident that CPS has taken measures to properly address these urgent concerns. That is why we are taking this up directly with the minister." said Richard Wagstaff

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>