Member

Given the costs of the Post Office debacle, which currently exceed £1 billion, the level of distress and hardship that it has inflicted, and the reality that it has led and will continue to lead to miscarriages of justice beyond those affected by Horizon, I find it astonishing that the Ministry of Justice has failed to tackle this issue. It is more than five years since Mr Justice Fraser, now Lord Justice Fraser, made it clear that the uncritical admission of evidence in the Horizon case was in itself an injustice, as the burden to say in what way the computer was unreliable fell on the party without access to the system while the party with access had no similar responsibility to reveal what might be unreliable.