THE LAWYERS WHO HELPED JAIL INNOCENT POSTMASTERS ARE UNDER INVESTIGATION
Funny thing about lawyers. They spend every working day telling the rest of us to trust the process and respect the evidence. Then the evidence turns out to be garbage and the process turns out to be them, and suddenly nobody remembers a thing.
10 barristers are under investigation by the Bar Standards Board @barstandards.
20 solicitors are being probed by the Solicitors Regulation Authority @sra_solicitors.
The allegation is that they helped the Post Office wrongly prosecute close to 1000 sub postmasters through the Horizon IT scandal. At least 13 deaths have been linked to it.
These were not just junior lawyers pushing paper. They were strategy advisers. They told the Post Office a broken accounting system was solid while people went to prison on the strength of it.
During the Bates litigation some of them even tried to get Mr Justice Fraser removed from the case, presumably because he kept noticing things they preferred he didnt.
Hearings are expected this summer. The BSB says cases will move to its decision making panel this year. Nobody has been struck off. Nobody has been jailed. Postmasters are still waiting for compensation that was promised years ago.
The legal profession is now asking itself how so many of its own crossed lines.
Lovely bit of reflection.
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