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Pressure grows to rethink UK legal stance on computer evidence

Sub Post Office
People running sub Post Offices suffered. Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Legal presumption on accuracy of evidence is blamed for the biggest miscarriage of justice in UK history in the Post Office Horizon case.

Pressure is growing on the UK government to change a legal presumption that computer evidence is correct unless there is explicit evidence to the contrary. The issue has come to the fore again as the statutory public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal, one of the biggest miscarriages of