Writing in NLJ this week, John Gould, partner at Russell-Cooke, tackles the ‘offshore problem’ of tax havens, asking searching questions about the release of the Pandora Papers, Paradise Papers and Panama Papers
Gould asks: is it justifiable to search the information of so many people in the expectation of wrongdoing by some? For him, there are multiple ethical questions and moral conundrums.
He writes: ‘Is punishment by public exposure, rather than by judicial process, by journalistic vigilantes justified? If the moral standard to be enforced is not that of the law, then whose moral standard is it, and where does its legitimacy come from? Who decides how much collateral damage to blameless individuals is acceptable?’
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