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If this amendment had been in place, the Post Office scandal would have been avoided in some part, possibly for decades—as would the horrific fate of nurses at the Welsh Princess of Wales Hospital who were, in 2012, wrongly accused of falsifying patient records because of discrepancies found with computer records. Some nurses were subjected to criminal prosecution, suffering years of legal action before the trial collapsed when it emerged that a visit by an engineer fixing a bug had erased data that the nurses were accused of failing to gather. If the bar for putting forward evidence as reliable, as set out by the guidance contained in this amendment, had been in place, it would have pointed even the least technical judge towards the fact that there should have been engineering and audit logs highlighting the unauthorised access to, and amendment of, data.