Law in Action: The Post Office Scandal

The Post Office scandal is one of the UK's most widespread miscarriages of justice, with hundreds of people wrongfully convicted of theft or false accounting. In most of these cases, the Post Office was the investigator, prosecutor and the alleged victim. Joshua Rozenberg poses key questions - did Post Office lawyers act unethically by failing to disclose evidence that might have helped the people they were prosecuting? And might they face criminal proceedings for attempting to pervert the course of justice?