Tuesday, July 8, 2025

The Post Office scandal

In England, we’ve had an inquiry into the worst miscarriage of justice in British legal history.

They’ve just produced the first volume of their report.

Two points from the news report:

(1) It’s incredible to me that people are still waiting for their compensation. Or, if they’re been compensated, they’ve been short-changed by the state through an adversarial process. No respect or decency.

(2) The software company needs to be held accountable for their folly. Somebody somewhere made some seriously bad decisions and they need to be held accountable. A software bug should have been fixed years ago.

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For people outside the UK, there is a gripping TV show drama about this miscarriage called “Mr Bates vs The Post Office

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