travesty of justice doesn't begin to describe it. there must be something else wrong besides just the software? how could the justice department just blindly trust the software accounting without any other evidence.
No government organisation (typically the Crown Prosecution Service in England and Wales) was involved in bringing these prosecutions.
The Post Office itself was legislatively empowered to bring private prosecutions of their employees to the state courts of England.
The whole thing is insane.
While the PO doesn't have specific legislative powers to bring private prosecutions, they did have a significant amount of institutional holdover from when is was a public body.
Specifically, a close working relationship with the police and other bodies with statutory powers that went far beyond any relationship a privately owned body should have. E.g. they were given direct access to the Police National Computer System.
In UK private prosecution for crimes is possible. Probably a major reason for this kind of bullshit goes on.
whats happened here is a total fuck up of justice, with many many people lying
and the fact people/ judges have believed computer printouts as fact - ffs
which means other larger companies could do the same - maybe only CPS should bring cases
Anyone can bring a private prosecution.
No, it goes through the same public justice system, it’s just that the prosecution case is made by a private person or entity rather than the Crown Prosecution Service. It’s “private” in the sense that most civil suites are private. More info here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/private-prosecuti...