@731c2efc has started a series of posts on the legalities of the #postoffice #HorizonIT  scandal; the first includes an interesting observation.

In 1982 Sect.69 of PACE set out that: 'it was for the prosecution to show that the computer was operating correctly & not for the defendant to show that computer was not operating correctly'!

But, section 69 was repealed in 1999... but think how the PO case against #postmasters might have gone if hadn't been repealed?

https://davidallengreen.com/2023/09/computer-says-guilty-an-introduction-to-the-evidential-presumption-that-computers-are-operating-correctly/