One of the less appreciated aspects of the UK Post Office Horizon scandal is that it was made possible by a legal change in 1999 on the admissibility of computer evidence. That change was made following a flawed Law Commission analysis which showed two things:
- how poorly lawyers understand technical evidence,
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