Foolish to believe that computers and their software are infallible. Even more foolish to change the presumption as the Law Commission recommended some 25 years ago. That change must now be reversed, as I argue here – Law on computer evidence must change in wake of UK Post Office Horizon scandal The full… Read more »
In episode 1 of Mr Bates vs The Post Office, there is a scene in which Alan Bates’ wife tells him she has a job. “Teaching?” he replies. “No. Cleaning houses.” They need the money to make ends meet. They have lost their savings and business. He gives her a look – of love, gratitude… Read more »
This evening there is the first episode of a four part drama – Mr Bates vs The Post Office. It is a must see, if only in the hope that it will bring home to a wider public the scale and human impact of what has rightly been called the worst miscarriage of justice in… Read more »