Mr bates v the Post Office
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davek
Player Valuation: £150m
The Crown Prosecution Service is refusing to reveal Sir Keir Starmer’s role in the wrongful prosecution of subpostmasters after admitting it took at least 27 victims to court.
The CPS said it was combing through historic files and had found at least 27 prosecutions it had brought over issues linked to the Horizon IT computer system.
The defective IT system is blamed for hundreds of sub-postmasters being wrongly convicted in the greatest miscarriage of justice in British legal history.
The CPS said that once its trawl had been completed it expected to find about 50 cases in which it had launched prosecutions. More than 700 cases – the vast majority – were brought by the Post Office in private prosecutions.
But the CPS declined to say precisely when cases were taken to court, insisting it was looking at a time frame of 20 years between 2001 and 2020.
Sir Keir, the Labour Party leader, was head of the CPS between 2008 and 2013 as Director of Public Prosecutions.
The CPS refused to reveal if the cases took place between the dates Sir Keir was in charge of the organisation. Sir Keir and his party are favourite to win this year’s general election.
A CPS spokesman said: “The vast majority of these cases were private prosecutions brought by the Post Office. We’ve worked extensively and identified a small number of CPS cases which involved evidence connected to Horizon. In these cases, we have written to those defendants to disclose information so they could pursue an appeal.”
The CPS said the cases were taken on in “good faith”. The scandal first came to light in 2009 when Computer Weekly first raised questions about unsafe convictions and queried the Horizon IT system.
Sir Keir’s spokesman declined to comment on Tuesday night.
The CPS said it was combing through historic files and had found at least 27 prosecutions it had brought over issues linked to the Horizon IT computer system.
The defective IT system is blamed for hundreds of sub-postmasters being wrongly convicted in the greatest miscarriage of justice in British legal history.
The CPS said that once its trawl had been completed it expected to find about 50 cases in which it had launched prosecutions. More than 700 cases – the vast majority – were brought by the Post Office in private prosecutions.
But the CPS declined to say precisely when cases were taken to court, insisting it was looking at a time frame of 20 years between 2001 and 2020.
Sir Keir, the Labour Party leader, was head of the CPS between 2008 and 2013 as Director of Public Prosecutions.
The CPS refused to reveal if the cases took place between the dates Sir Keir was in charge of the organisation. Sir Keir and his party are favourite to win this year’s general election.
A CPS spokesman said: “The vast majority of these cases were private prosecutions brought by the Post Office. We’ve worked extensively and identified a small number of CPS cases which involved evidence connected to Horizon. In these cases, we have written to those defendants to disclose information so they could pursue an appeal.”
The CPS said the cases were taken on in “good faith”. The scandal first came to light in 2009 when Computer Weekly first raised questions about unsafe convictions and queried the Horizon IT system.
Sir Keir’s spokesman declined to comment on Tuesday night.
Good luck to all the poor people who had their lives destroyed by all this, hope they screw whoever they need to for everything they have.
Power to the people.
Power to the people.
Some questions answer themselves old chum
A Jamacian no less! Oh the humanity!!
I am shocked that Priti Patel is being a disingenuous ghoul
£46mil is a bonkers amount, it works out at £85,000+ for each of the 550 in the original action. How can these figures be justified?
gonetomorrow
Player Valuation: £70m
I can't help thinking the only certain winners in the end will be solicitors and barristers.
Caution: Read the comments lol
The whole legal system has become a giant scam.
Having worked for a medium sized law firm, I can very easily see how these figures are racked up mate.
This is a few years back,but we would bill £250 per hour for a junior solicitor and £450 / 500 per hour for a senior solicitor ( it`s probably more now )
There was no such thing as billing for ten mins or half an hour, it was an hour or nothing.
Then you`d have admin costs - billing for phone calls, letters, assorted court documents and other expenses.
Tbh, I`m surprised it only works out at 85k each.
