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the problems with horizon and the adverse impact these had had on prosecutions across the uk. in september 2020, supported by crown office, and with information provided by the post office, the scottish criminal cases review commission wrote to 73 individuals who may have been convicted in scotland on the basis of unreliable evidence from the horizon system, with the purpose of inviting the application for their case to be reviewed. to date, to the best of my knowledge, and individuals have come forward to the scottish criminal cases review commission, and of that 16, the commission has made seven such referrals to the high court, four of which have resulted already in convictions being overturned. in addition to those individuals who had been written to by the commission, in recognising the role it can play in the system s commissions were, the crown office, separate from the list identified by the post office, identified a potentially affected cases with a view to identifyi

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