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Podcast: The Post Office Horizon Scandal



In this episode, we look at the Post Office Horizon scandal, an app that caused what some people are describing as the largest miscarriage of justice in British legal history.
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We look at some bugs, the legal judgements and what might have gone wrong at the Post Office to allow things to go so off track. I analyse what we can learn from the disaster to help stop this from happening in our own projects.

The show notes and transcripts are available for free.

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  2. Maitlan Brown14 June 2021 at 05:06

    I haven’t heard about this scandal I will hear this podcast because these kinds of cases help me in understanding and implementing the concepts which I learn in ethics courses. And for my current coursework, I use this scandal as the base and take help from someone to pay to do my coursework online for me.

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