Software bugs were hidden from lawyers of wrongly convicted UK postal workers.

A lot of people in the UK prosecutors offices and post office management should be going to prison.

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    10 months ago

    This is the UK, not the US. There will be little to no fallout from this, and the victims will be threatened with consequences for speaking out.

      • anonymouse@lemmings.worldEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        There would be a class action lawsuit where lawyers take two thirds of the settlement and those affected would get enough for a fancy Starbucks coffee.

        • EdibleFriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          10 months ago

          And, of course, they would be shamed for how they spent it and told thats why people are poor.

        • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          Class action lawsuits usually give about a third to the lawyers, and the rest is divided between the plaintiffs, so most of them get 10 or 20 bucks.

    • RubberDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      You think so? Usually judges don’t like being lied to. So if it is now clear that the company willfully lied, they might take a different stance.

      Especially because the effects are so long term detrimental to the persons and they kept it up for so long.