Faulty Horizon accounting data was used to demand money from, and prosecute, UK postmasters. The High Court found in 2019 that Horizon contained bugs, errors a…
GOV.UK reports about 1,731 million pounds paid across the Horizon schemes, with 87% of claims settled. Capture closes 31 March 2027 and Convictions Redress 31 July 2027.
Volume 1 came out on 8 July 2025. The chair says the rest will be five volumes and that he is still some months from publication.
Sunak announced the plan on 10 January 2024. The Offences Act received Royal Assent on 24 May, and Scotland followed on 13 June.
It found the Post Office failures so egregious that prosecuting the cases was an affront to the conscience of the court.
The postmasters won on contracts in March, the case settled for 57.75 million pounds on 11 December, and the 16 December judgment found Horizon contained bugs, errors an…
Computer Weekly reported in 2009, a campaign group formed, and Second Sight found bugs causing false shortfalls at 76 branches in 2013.
Postmasters reported unexplained shortfalls. Contracts could make them liable, and some were prosecuted.
ICL Pathway won a 1996 tender. When the benefits side was dropped in 1999, the branch system became Horizon.
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