An IT bug causing “technical issues” within the body running courts in England and Wales is “unbelievably serious” and could be compared to the Post Office Horizon scandal, a former lord chancellor has said.
The BBC has reported that it took HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) several years to react to the bug, which is said to have caused evidence to go missing, be overwritten or appear lost, resulting in judges in civil, family and tribunal courts making rulings on cases when evidence was potentially incomplete.
