Ministry of Justice Ltd.

[petagny]

Not content with privatising delivery of penal services to dodgy providers (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10226728/G4S-pulls-out-of-race-for-new-electronic-tagging-contract-amid-fraud-inquiry.html) and introducing a regressive system of charging that may exclude the less well off from justice and encourage the innocent to plead guilty (http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/aug/24/court-charges-make-a-mockery-of-justice) the UK Ministry Justice is also seeking to boost revenues by selling advisory services to to Saudi Arabia:

http://blogs.ft.com/david-allen-green/2015/01/20/raif-badawi-the-ministry-of-justices-commercial-proposal-to-saudi-arabia/

Wrong on so many levels!

For those readers who think a different approach to influencing the justice system in Saudi Arabia might be more appropriate please look here:

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/saudi-arabia-free-raif-badawi-flogged-blogger

[petagny]

The Minister of Justice and Prime Minister have possibly been reading the PFM Board and decided to withdraw the bid for providing technical guidance to Saudi Arabia:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2070f78c-71a1-11e5-ad6d-f4ed76f0900a.html

But this seems the more likely motivation:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6688733/Brit-74-faces-350-lashes.html