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> In the latest chapter of one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in English legal history, 39 people who were prosecuted Meanwhile in the Netherlands, ~26
by gpvos 6y ago
> In the latest chapter of one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in English legal history, 39 people who were prosecuted
Meanwhile in the Netherlands, ~26000 people have been branded as fraudsters by the tax office due to a way too strict child benefits law. More than 100 probably entirely innocent people fled the country. Even the compensation that is now promised is only slowly trickling towards them, and likely to be snatched up by debt collectors - including even the tax office itself, which is still partly unrepentant. Okay, they haven't been sent to jail directly, but the scale of this is huge.
- toomanybeersies 6y agoWe had a similar thing happen with unemployment benefits in Australia [1], which arguably led to several suicides. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robodebt_scheme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robodebt_scheme