On evidence day 101 (19th December 2023) the Inquiry heard from it’s legal expert, Duncan Atkinson KC. He seems to be used by the Crown Prosecution Service and is held in quite high regard. As for most witnesses he submitted witness statements and was now being questioned about them. He must have mentioned Mrs Adedayo […]

From a Software Developer perspective, it was quite frustrating that Post Office would try to minimise the number of Software Bugs in the Horizon System (whatever that is). Often it felt that people simply did not understand the Software Development Process and made statements based upon their limited understanding. The Inquiry usually never challenged these

On the 11th November 2024 Paul Patterson was re-called as a witness from Fujitsu Services (Day 196). This was supposed to be due to a lack of clarity in his previous evidence session, however it turned out to be very interesting. This was in Phase 7 which was supposed to be about future plans at

One piece of news that has emerged recently is that Post Office is unable to proceed with compensation for about 1000 cases because they cannot find any evidence that Horizon was at fault. Another case is that one former postmaster is in prison for murdering his wife and part of the evidence for that is

Over the course of the Post Office Horizon trials, appeals and the Inquiry there was frequent mention of the KEL. Just exactly what is a KEL? Although this author has years of software development experience, it was not obvious. This does reveal one common problem, the use of internal (affectionate?) names for elements of the

In the UK CJS you may be prosecuted and all or part of the “evidence” against you is generated by Software. The original concept was devices like intoximeters, they are some sort of measuring device in which some embedded Software is used to measure and or report some aspect that is regulated by law. The