A post post I made last week on Linkedin attracted this interesting contribution from Dominic Connor. I disagree with some of his detailed points, but I am in broad sympathy with his wider argument, so I thought it deserved a considered response, which was too long for a Linkedin post. Here it is, but first […]| James Christie's Blog
The Post Office IT scandal has attracted massive publicity this year, in the wake of ITV’s superb “Mr Bates vs the Post Office”. Please watch it if you have not already done so. This drama has generated pressure on the UK government, and pushed the scandal up the political agenda. The government has finally given […]| James Christie's Blog
This is a spot of whimsy. I would like to stress that the following ‘article’ was written by ChatGPT, not by me. AI seems to think I dispense pompous waffle. There is a complete lack of substance. The auditors get off particularly lightly. Their voices were not drowned out. They had their megaphones. They chose […]| James Christie's Blog
Since I started taking an active interest in the Post Office scandal, some three years ago, I have been impressed by the quality of writing and clarity of thought from lawyers. However, there are two major, linked exceptions. The first exception was the comments from old school judges, some of whom almost seemed to take […]| James Christie's Blog
This article was written by Eleanor Shaikh who has campaigned tirelessly over the years on behalf of the victims of the Post Office scandal. Eleanor has been highly effective in unearthing document…| James Christie's Blog
3 posts published by James Christie during February 2025| James Christie's Blog
Use of Evidence Generated by Software in Criminal Proceedings In January 2025 the Ministry of Justice launched a consultation on how courts should deal with computer evidence in England and Wales. …| James Christie's Blog
On Wednesday, 5 March 2025, I decided to play with Twitter/X’s Grok 3 AI tool. My game was to play the role of someone trying to track me down based on sketchy details from my past. It took Grok a …| James Christie's Blog
How can Fujitsu expect us to believe they thought Horizon would not be used for criminal evidence? In the first part of this series, “A contractual mess”, I explained some of the contractual confus…| James Christie's Blog
Blundering through a fog of confusionThis is the second part of my series explaining how the Post Office and Fujitsu were vague about the purposes of Horizon, specifically the need for the system t…| James Christie's Blog
This will be a series of posts arguing that the Post Office and Fujitsu didn’t understand what they were doing when they commissioned and built Horizon in the late 1990s. Both corporations were hop…| James Christie's Blog
It’s confession time. I was a Y2K test manager for IBM. As far as some people are concerned that means I was party to a huge scam that allowed IT companies to make billions out of spooking po…| James Christie's Blog
