Post Office

The Solicitors Regulation Authority is investigating former Post Office lawyers over the Horizon scandal – the biggest miscarriage of justice in British history. The SRA has applied to the High Court to obtain documents relating to its investigation into potential solicitor misconduct.

A public inquiry into the wrongful convictions of hundreds of sub-postmasters and mistresses begins today. Between 2000 and 2014, more than 700 sub-postmasters were convicted of false accounting, theft and fraud due to a fault in the Horizon computer system.

Northern Ireland victims of the Post Office scandal which saw dozens of subpostmasters wrongly convicted of theft based on faulty evidence could be next in line to have their convictions overturned. Madden & Finucane Solicitors has written to the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) on behalf of "a