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39 Post Office convictions quashed after Fujitsu evidence about Horizon IT platform called into question

Japanese firm has a reckoning to face Gareth Corfield Fri 23 Apr 2021 // 14:15 UTC Share Copy Post Office employees were wrongly prosecuted by the company as a direct result of it covering up software bugs in its Horizon IT system, the Court of Appeal has said as it quashed 39 convictions this morning. Those 39 convictions were obtained by the Post Office s in-house lawyers who ignored their own barristers advice that the institution s behaviour was trampling over established prosecutorial codes intended to promote fairness and honesty. Lord Justice Holroyde said that the one-time state monopoly had, by representing Horizon as reliable, effectively sought to reverse the burden of proof, leading to criminal defendants having to prove their innocence instead of the Post Office showing they were guilty. Its lawyers compounded this by withholding evidence from courts and defence lawyers alike – evidence which clearly showed the Post Office and Fujitsu

What is the Post Office s Horizon scandal and what happens next?

By Press Association 2021 Coronavirus – Mon Apr 12, 2021 Dozens of former subpostmasters who were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting due to the Post Office’s defective Horizon accounting system finally had their names cleared by the Court of Appeal on Friday. Here the PA news agency looks at the decades-long scandal and what happens next. – Who are the subpostmasters? Subpostmasters run Post Office branches, which are often situated inside a shop or other business, which the subpostmasters also run. Hundreds of subpostmasters were prosecuted by the Post Office. A total of 42 cases were considered by the Court of Appeal, with 39 of them having their convictions overturned.

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By Press Association 2021 Coronavirus – Mon Apr 12, 2021 Dozens of former subpostmasters who were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting due to the Post Office’s defective Horizon accounting system finally had their names cleared by the Court of Appeal on Friday. Here the PA news agency looks at the decades-long scandal and what happens next. – Who are the subpostmasters? Subpostmasters run Post Office branches, which are often situated inside a shop or other business, which the subpostmasters also run. Hundreds of subpostmasters were prosecuted by the Post Office. A total of 42 cases were considered by the Court of Appeal, with 39 of them having their convictions overturned.

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By Press Association 2021 Coronavirus – Mon Apr 12, 2021 Dozens of former subpostmasters who were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting due to the Post Office’s defective Horizon accounting system finally had their names cleared by the Court of Appeal on Friday. Here the PA news agency looks at the decades-long scandal and what happens next. – Who are the subpostmasters? Subpostmasters run Post Office branches, which are often situated inside a shop or other business, which the subpostmasters also run. Hundreds of subpostmasters were prosecuted by the Post Office. A total of 42 cases were considered by the Court of Appeal, with 39 of them having their convictions overturned.

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