Tough justice

Legislation to resolve the Post Office scandal is not as straightforward as it seems

IN AN IDEAL WORLD, IT SHOULD not have taken a saccharine ITV series to bring the plight of the sub-postmasters victimised by the Post Office’s Horizon accounting software to public attention. Perhaps the scandal, despite years of increasing mainstream media coverage, was simply too complicated to explain in readily intelligible terms, and only a human interest angle, backed with a prime time television slot, could do the trick. Be that as it may, now that the public’s attention has been captured, the question of what to do about Horizon-related criminal convictions has naturally acquired a new sense of political urgency. Some sub-postmasters have already had their convictions quashed by the Court of Appeal, though not all who applied were successful, since the court took the view that the Horizon evidence…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2024

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