Accountability & Transparency: BT/Phorm Prosecution

Dear Crown Prosecution Service,

Please could you confirm for me my understanding that the "rule of
law" applies in the UK?

Specifically that each individual is subject to the same laws, with
no individual or group enjoying special legal privileges.

Including Directors of British Telecom, Directors of Phorm,
Politicians, Security Services staff, Civil Servants, and Police
Officers.

If I can make that assumption...

Assuming the rule of law does apply in the UK, in the broadest
possible sense of the maxim "democratic accountability and
transparency", please would you provide an account for the
progress(*) of the complaint concerning illegal mass surveillance
and industrial espionage committed by Directors of BT/Phorm?

In particular, why has no one yet been prosecuted?

Yours faithfully,

P. John

(*) The case has now taken CPS over 440 days to consider(*) versus
an average of 9 days, and seems likely to extend into a third
calendar year without public acknowledgement, or a statement being
made by Keir Starmer.

Dear Crown Prosecution Service,

please can I chase you for a response.

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ac...

Your reply was due on 28 January 2010.

It has been 475 days now since the complaints concerning Brtitish
Telecom and Phorm were put in your hands. In the intervening time
you have made no public statement. Please will you provide an
account for the delay as requested?

Keir Starmer stated "Its really important that [justice] is done in
an open and transparent way. Its really important that we're
accountable for the decisions we make" .

Yours faithfully,

P. John

Dear Miss D Freed

Thanks for your reply.

I regret, I am still no closer to understanding why it has taken
the Complex Casework Team almost 500 days to make a decision in the
BT/Phorm case.

Still no closer to understanding why there has been no press
statement by the CPS acknowledging the complaint.

And most concerned that I am still no closer to understanding why
the people who carried out illegal mass covert communication
surveillance on 200,000 people, and the businesses that served
them, are still at large.

Prosecutions and law enforcement are long overdue.

I think the public are owed an explanation and account from the CPS
for this appalling delay.

Yours sincerely,
P. John