https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/18/post-o...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/23/post-office...
There is an enormous amount of incredible litigation behaviour by the post office in this case. The problem for them is: it all came to trial in the end and its there for everyone to read in painful detail.
Here is, for example, the post office trying to remove the judge in the case after it all started unraveling:
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2019/871.html
And in 929 of https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2019/3408.html the Judge writes of Post office senior officers refusal to accept to flaws of Horizon even very late in the game:
"This approach by the Post Office has amounted, in reality, to bare assertions and denials that ignore what has actually occurred, at least so far as the witnesses called before me in the Horizon Issues trial are concerned. It amounts to the 21st century equivalent of maintaining that the earth is flat. "
And to top it all off, this particular "private entity" is state owned.
It's the sort of thing you'd expect from the chairman of a 15 generation family company, not some walk-in recruitee.
The sheer number of routine failures that appear to have been accepted as part of the normal operation of the system is astonishing.
The middle and upper class don't really have much interaction, they just fondly imagine that the justice system upholds the values it espouses.
The 'criminal' class aren't so much identified by a fair trial, or evidence, but by what sounds about right.
This system may work well for moving actual criminals through the sausage factory, but falls down spectacularly in cases like this, where the 'obvious' or most likely gut feeling isn't correct.