The Post Office general counsel failed to give the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) evidence that would have identified the biggest miscarriage of justice years earlier. In a 2014 response to a CCRC request for an update on a Post Office review of its own prosecution strategy and processes, Chris Aujard, interim general council at…
After more than 20 years, what is now referred to as the Post Office Horizon scandal has become headline news. Computer Weekly has played an important part in exposing what has been described as the widest miscarriage of justice in UK history. In 1999, the Post Office’s single shareholder, the UK government, began automating accounting…
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Fujitsu has won just one UK public sector contract so far this year, compared with seven at this point last year, following the angry reaction to its role in the Post Office scandal. While the IT services giant’s self-imposed government bidding pause has not quashed its appetite for public sector work, the fall in contracts…
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Fujitsu’s controversial contract with the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) was renewed because there were no other suppliers that could meet the regulatory duties required, but the service could be taken in-house next year. Following the announcement of Fujitsu’s first government contract of the year and a subsequent public backlash, the government has been quick to stress…
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The Post Office has extended a controversial agreement with IT supplier Fujitsu that will see it support two datacentres to the end of March 2025, at a total additional cost of £36m. Combined with an announcement earlier this year that a services contact with Fujitsu to support the Post Office’s branch accounting system, Horizon, was…
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The government is offering £600,000 to former subpostmasters who have had wrongful convictions overturned, to settle their claims – but a lawyer representing many of the victims of the Post Office scandal warns this could pressurise some to accept much less than they are entitled to. A total of 86 former subpostmasters have so far…
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Mend.io, the Israel-based supplier of a popular software that helps developers identify and remediate vulnerabilities and security issues in their code libraries, has sealed a potentially dangerous vulnerability in its application security platform that was uncovered by the research team at WithSecure. The vulnerability, which is being publicly disclosed today after a four-month remediation process,…
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Each year when Computer Weekly asks for nominations for its list of the most influential women in UK tech, the number of women considered grows. This year, more than 650 women were put forward for the top 50, Rising Stars and Hall of Fame, showing yet more growth from previous years – in 2017 when…
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The Post Office unsuccessfully tried to convince an independent expert IT witness that he was wrong when his report put its case against a subpostmaster in doubt and it ended the action, settling with the defendant when he refused to change his view. During a recent hearing in the Post Office Horizon scandal statutory public…
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Two more Post Office Horizon scandal convictions referred for appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which warned against referring similar cases “en masse”. The appeals of former subpostmasters Therese Gooding and Ian Davies will now go to Southwark Crown Court. Between 2000 and 2015, a total of 736 subpostmasters who ran Post Office…
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