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Compensating Post Office victims

Can’t they even get that right?

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Joshua Rozenberg
Apr 23, 2023
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Two years ago today, the Court of Appeal delivered a devastating judgment. I described it as the biggest miscarriage of justice in England and Wales to be put right in a single ruling.

Three judges overturned the convictions of 39 former sub-postmasters,1 years after they had been wrongly prosecuted by the Post Office.2 They had been convicted between 2003…

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