Court lambasts Post Office disclosure failings as convictions quashed | News | Law Gazette
Documents reveal concerns about 'conspiracies' over Horizon system and need to 'destroy' criticism.| Law Gazette
Documents reveal concerns about 'conspiracies' over Horizon system and need to 'destroy' criticism.| Law Gazette
A former senior developer who worked for Fujitsu on the Post Office IT system that led to subpostmasters being falsely accused of fraud, has claimed bosses knew of fundamental flaws before going live.| ComputerWeekly.com
On Monday, the final judgement in the Post Office trial was handed down, finding in favour of the claimants on all counts. The outcome will be of particular interest to the group of 587 claimants who brought the case against Post Office Limited, but the judgement also illustrates problems handling e| Bentham’s Gaze
In London, this week, a trial is being held over a dispute between the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance (JFSA) and the Post Office, but the result will have far-reaching repercussions for anyone disputing computer evidence. The trial currently focuses on whether the legal agreements and processes| Bentham’s Gaze
Judges quash convictions of 39 former postmasters after the UK's most widespread miscarriage of justice.| BBC News
Hamilton and Others-v-Post-Office [2021] EWCA Crim 577 is a pretty gut wrenching tale of corporate misdeeds. All the wrong doing is rather faceless at the minute, but it cannot – one hopes – remain…| Lawyer Watch
There exists widespread misunderstanding about the nature of computers and how and why they are liable to fail. The present approach to the disclosure or discovery and evaluation of evidence produced by computers in legal proceedings is unsatisfactory. The central problem is the evidential presumption that computers are reliable. This presumption is not warranted. To this end, recommendations are proposed to rectify this problem with the aim of increasing the probability of a fair trial.| journals.sas.ac.uk
In this paper Peter Bernard Ladkin, Bev Littlewood, Harold Thimbleby and Martyn Thomas CBE consider the condition set out in section 69(1)(b) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE 1984) that reliance on computer evidence should be subject to proof of its correctness, and compare it to the 1997 Law Commission recommendation that a common law presumption be used that a computer operated correctly unless there is explicit evidence to the contrary (LC Presumption). The authors unders...| journals.sas.ac.uk
