Activity: Talk or Presentation › Oral presentation
Description
In the biggest miscarriage of justice in British legal history, the Post Office wrongfully prosecuted over 700 of its own staff for theft, false accounting, and/or fraud. Some staff were imprisoned, others were declared bankrupt, some died by suicide. In 2019, a judge ordered the Post Office to pay £58 million in damages to 555 of the staff who were wrongfully prosecuted. A senior Judge, Sir Wyn Williams, is currently conducting an investigation into this saga. My research on this saga considers a number of perspectives, commencing by considering biases that are likely to have influenced the Post Office investigators, then moving on to carry out a zemiological analysis of the prosecutions, and finally considering the events using a technological injustice lens.