Post Office

The cases of sub-postmasters in Scotland who may have been wrongly prosecuted by the Post Office over its faulty computer system have been referred for review by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC). The SCCRC announced last year that it was investigating the issue in Scotland. It h

Barrister Stephen Mason has written about the Post Office Horizon scandal and the "underlying legal cause of the scandal – that computers are presumed to be reliable". Mr Mason called to the bar in 1988 and is an associate research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London.

A dozen more convictions of former subpostmasters linked to a flawed Post Office computer system have been overturned, bringing the total to 57. More than 80 per cent of the former subpostmasters whose convictions were overturned were represented by Tim Moloney QC of Doughty Street Chambers, instruc

Lawyers representing former subpostmasters who had long-standing convictions quashed at the Court of Appeal have called for the criminal focus to now "finally and fiercely" switch to investigating Post Office officials who "maliciously ruined the lives of innocent people by prosecuting them in pursu