Transcripts for BBCNEWS Newsnight 20240604 23:06:00

In 2019, a civil case against the Post Office took place. The High Court ruled that the Horizon It System was faulty. Thejudgment said. Mr bates, that has been put to you. Lawyers say the implication from the judge was that the approach to disclosure, the legal Process Of Making Documentary Evidence and records from computers available to defendants in legal proceedings, was unsatisfactory. The Post Office withheld from disclosure to those it prosecuted that there had been problems with bugs, errors and defects in the horizon system. This meant subpostmasters were unable to use that information to challenge that horizon was working properly, as the Post Office alleged, and that horizon itself