Lawyers and the Post Office

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What role did lawyers play in the Post Office scandal? That’s one of the questions I’ll be asking in a special edition of Radio 4’s long-running programme Law in Action, which you’ll be able to hear this afternoon. (5 March)

Those taking part are:

Jo Hamilton, who ran a Post Office in Hampshire and thought she must have done some something wrong with the computer when a “discrepancy” doubled before her eyes.


Jo Hamilton in the Law in Action studio
Richard Moorhead, a member of the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board that recommended that legislation allowing postmasters to be exonerated “at pace”.

HH Isobel Plumstead, a former circuit judge who tells me what she thinks of government plans to pass a quashing of convictions bill.

Christina Blacklaws, the former Law Society president who now chairs LawtechUK and wants to restore safeguards on the use of computer evidence in court.

Andrew Marshall, who runs a law firm specialising in private prosecutions and believes that allowing the Post Office lawyers to prosecute postmasters was not the root cause of wrongful convictions.