The Post Office scandal is shocking—but not surprising
The systems failures that led to this miscarriage of justice are all too familiar—and without some remarkable stokes of legal luck they might never have come to light
By me, at Prospect
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/64464/post-office-scandal-mr-bates-law
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@davidallengreen What galls me is the "come to light" aspect. Private Eye (maybe other organs as well) have been highlighting the problems and then the scandal for almost all this time.
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Indeed. But it was the court process that prised the key disclosures out of the Post Office.