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Articles on Post Office Horizon IT scandal
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The Post Office inquiry has just moved into its final and most consequential stage.
The government not only outsources the computer systems to companies like Fujitsu but all knowledge about how to operate them, maintain them and fix them when they go wrong.
It’s hard not to support the plan to right this miscarriage of justice but the government is setting a dangerous constitutional precedent in order to correct its own mistakes.
The Post Office has exploited the slowness of legal and political institutions.
The victims of the Horizon scandal had no political constituency and served no existing partisan debate.
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