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Mr Oldham refers to miscarriages of justice but we only hear of cases taken to tribunals. The problems inside RMJM which ARB has ignored shows how narrow focused ARB has become.
One problem is that ARB can only pursue an 'architect in person' so it ends up pursuing only one man/woman practices and pursuing architects over ever more ridiculous and petty charges such as 'causing irritation'.
When it sits, the tribunal has only one architect member who appears to be out voted most of the time. (or perhaps has just 'gone native').
Based on 18 tribunals last year I calculate each prosecution cost over £47,000. That means the retention fee of over 8500 architects was spent on prosecuting 18 architects. This might be justified if the complaints were serious or life threatening but one only has to read Mr Oldham's case and the recent case of Mr Neil Shepherd to conclude that ARB's prosecution budgeting suffers from a severe lack of proportionality.

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