This legislation essentially admits that the 1% referral of appeals by the CCRC to the Court of Appeal over the past decades has been woefully short. Even the higher but still small Post Office referrals (93 out of 800?) has been appalling. My concern that this law will also free or quash convictions of several REAL criminals seems not to bother government or media at all.

The Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill will be published today, LBC news reports. This is the legislation that will automatically quash the convictions of postmasters caught upon in the Horizon scandal. The Guardian says it will cover prosecutions brought by the Post Office and the Crown Prosecution Service in England and Wales between 1996 and 2018.

People in media don't seem to be covering this aspect of the Post Office scandal. If it's taken 30 years for Justice to emerge and even now only 93 of the 800+ wrongfully convicted have been cleared, let alone compensated, something is very wrong with the system.

If even only 750 of the convicted were innocent, what the hell is the matter with the CCRC?

It's meant to sort out wrongful convictions. Why so long? Why so few?

And how many others have been wrongly convicted? After watching The Jury on Ch4, many might think - THOUSANDS.
How many have been freed? Only dozens.

Sadly outside of those directly affected no one cares about wrongful convictions until the issue gains sufficient media and so then political attention.

Notions of due process, blind justice and innocent until proven guilty have been replaced by cost cutting, identity politics and victims must be believed.

The Post Office scandal will be a political football in the election or the government will give the victims a large sum each as a bribe.

The tech companies are on the government payroll and Fujitsu know's the government secrets.

Green Man wrote:
The Post Office scandal will be a political football in the election

If it is it will be a waste of time: most people think it is a sad story about being a postmaster, not the death of freedoms fought for since Magna Carta (Great Charta and 1215 for anyone educated at Eton...)