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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Amelia Hill

‘Dangerous path to go down’: four legal experts on the Post Office exoneration bill

People walk past a post office in Westminster.
The Post Office’s faulty IT software led to hundreds of its operators being wrongfully convicted. Photograph: Tejas Sandhu/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock

The government announced on Wednesday that it would quash the convictions of hundreds of post office operators.

However, the decision to do so by passing a bill declaring each operator innocent has attracted concern from judges and lawyers.

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