Post Office Horizon scandal and the presumption of computers’ reliability
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Barrister Stephen Mason has written about the Post Office Horizon scandal and the “underlying legal cause of the scandal – that computers are presumed to be reliable”.
Mr Mason called to the bar in 1988 and is an associate research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London.
Subpostmasters had long-standing convictions quashed at the Court of Appeal in April. Their lawyers called for the criminal focus to switch to investigating Post Office officials who “maliciously ruined the lives of innocent people by prosecuting them in pursuit of profits”.
A dozen more convictions were overturned last week.
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