Felix Pergande - Fotolia IT scandal exposes legal rule that made it easy for Post Office to prosecute the innocent Lawyers call for changes to digital evidence rule that made it easier for the Post Office to ‘bamboozle courts’ and make subpostmasters pay a heavy price for its IT failings Share this item with your network: By Published: 20 Jan 2021 10:22 Two separate events in 1999 have become inextricably linked in the process of destroying the lives of hundreds of subpostmasters across the UK. Although unrelated, together they were to have a devastating impact on law-abiding people, criminalising them due to a faulty IT system and a legal rule that denied them a fair trial.