AFTER NOT GUILTY · VISUAL GALLERY
The Ideas in Pictures
Five images. One connected argument.
These selected illustrations from Simon Peers’ Rewiring the Public Sector make complex questions about public accountability, information and improvement easier to see.
When the system does not join up
These four scenes move from an unresolved human consequence to the engineering questions that could help prevent it.
01 / THE HUMAN CONSEQUENCE
The Orphaned Outcome
The case is closed. Who owns what happens next?
02 / THE WHOLE SYSTEM
The Broken Clock
Every component can perform its function while the connection between them fails—and the intended outcome is lost.
03 / THE INFORMATION TRAIL
Signal Integrity
The message was sent. Was it heard—and acted upon?
04 / THE PROPOSED SOLUTION
A Scottish Post-Acquittal Standard
A proposal for accountable review, proportionate correction and independently verified institutional learning.
05 / A BETTER OUTCOME
Closing the Circuit
Connecting people, processes and responsibility so that action is completed, checked and learned from.
Restoration and lasting improvement require more than an acknowledgement. They require ownership, justified action and verification.
Images as questions, not evidence
All five are conceptual illustrations, not documentary photographs. They represent ideas and proposed improvements; they do not depict actual events, identify real parties or establish wrongdoing in any individual case.
The Scottish Post-Acquittal Standard shown here is a proposal for public discussion—not a standard currently established in law.
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