The key is to learn from the mistakes you made the first time and never head down that same dead end path again.

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Ciavarella acknowledged in a recent interview with a Wilkes-Barre investigative reporter (Joe Holden of WBRE) that he made mistakes relating to not filing accurate tax returns but that he never sentenced a child to prison when it was not warranted.

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Public pension boards, made up of laymen, advised by conflicted Wall Street experts selling product should never be reluctant to admit mistakes.

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Ms Cooper said the Labour government had made some mistakes - efforts to introduce 90-day pre-trial detention for terror suspects was "never justified by the evidence".

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