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The postmaster's appeal for a retrial has previously been refused

Wrongly convicted due to bugs in the UK Post Office's computer system, Seema Misra was sent to prison while two months pregnant.

Mother of murdered wife says killer using Horizon scandal to ‘gain publicity’

Dan Neidle, tax lawyer, posted on X saying the Post Office claimed £934m tax relief for its compensation payments, and called it ‘unlawful’.

Robin Garbutt hopes for fresh appeal against conviction that came after jury heard evidence using data from discredited IT system

Bar Council chair Sam Townend KC says parliament should consider formal regulation of growing practice

Westminster has largely been gripped by one story this week, that of what to do about the Post Office Horizon scandal.

In response to the outcry over what he described as “one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in our nation’s history”, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has promised to overturn the criminal convictions of more than 700 sub-postmasters falsely accused of theft or false accounting between 2000 and 2014. In doing…

Letters: Readers debate problems with computer systems, denials of wrongdoing, and note that nothing is as effective in galvanising politicians as embarrassment