Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry

This week, the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry resumed its hearings with openings.

Recognised as the most significant miscarriage of justice in recent legal history, the failures of the Horizon system led to the prosecution and unsafe conviction of many innocent men and women subpostmasters. 

In April 2021, the Court of Appeal considered the first successful appeals.  The Court of Appeal found that the investigative and disclosure failings of Post Office Limited were “so egregious as to make the prosecution of any of the “Horizon cases” an affront to the conscience of the court” and that, in their conduct of the prosecutions, the Post Office “reversed the burden of proof”. 

Tim Moloney KC and Angela Patrick now represent over 60 of those whose convictions have been quashed in the Inquiry.   

Tim, Kate O’Raghallaigh and Graeme Hall have acted for numerous successful appellants over the past 12 months.  Convictions continue to be quashed as unsafe and an affront to justice. 

Tim and Nick Brown act together in the subpostmasters’ claims for compensation.

The Inquiry is set to sit between October and early December to continue its consideration with evidence on the design and roll-out of Horizon. 

Tim, Nick, Angela, Kate and Graeme are instructed by Hudgell Solicitors. 

More information about the Inquiry can be found on Hudgell Solicitors’ website, here.

Further coverage of the first days of the Phase 2 hearings are available here (BBC) and here (Guardian).

Live streaming of the Inquiry evidence is available, here.