The Latest Breaking News from the Post Office

As the Post Office debacle has amply demonstrated, putting blind faith into a new form of technology can be perilous

Politicians, civil servants and the judicial system were complicit in their disdain of those fighting to clear their names

Bar Council chair Sam Townend KC says parliament should consider formal regulation of growing practice

Westminster has largely been gripped by one story this week, that of what to do about the Post Office Horizon scandal.

In response to the outcry over what he described as “one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in our nation’s history”, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has promised to overturn the criminal convictions of more than 700 sub-postmasters falsely accused of theft or false accounting between 2000 and 2014. In doing…

Letters: Readers debate problems with computer systems, denials of wrongdoing, and note that nothing is as effective in galvanising politicians as embarrassment

All three main parties have come under scrutiny for their roles in one of Britain’s worst miscarriages of justice

People behind characters in the ITV drama describe their efforts to highlight Horizon software injustices

Paula Vennells, former chief executive of the Post Office, has said she will hand back her CBE, following the outrage over the Horizon scandal that left hundreds of people prosecuted for crimes they didn’t commit. Craig Prescott, lecturer in law at Royal Holloway, University of London, answers this and other…