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Indefensible

How Lawyers Failed to Stop the Post Office Scandal

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-5292-5580-5
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Erscheinungstermin: 15.09.2026
vorbestellbar, Erscheinungstermin ca. September 2026

The Post Office Scandal is an indelible stain on the British justice system: hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrongly labelled criminals, ruining lives and destroying communities. But the real scandal was that the Post Office’s lawyers knew the evidence was flawed but failed to act in their quest to defend a corporation. Why did they not stop it?

This book dives into how legal professionals failed in their duties, silenced the truth and even turned against the victims, including accounts from victims who were advised to enter guilty pleas. But this is not just about the Post Office — this is a wider examination of the legal profession and its ethical boundaries, asking whether lawyers are putting clients' interests above justice and how to stop such a disaster from happening again.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781529255805
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-5292-5580-5
  • Verlag: Bristol University Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 15.09.2026
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2026
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Seiten: 286
  • Format (B x H): 129 x 198 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

1. The Blame Game

2. The Start of It All

3. The Totem Poles

4. The Case That Could Have Stopped It All

5. ‘We Will Ruin You’

6. Drowning in Disclosure

7. Protect Horizon at All Costs

8. Pregnant Thief

9. Introducing Jarnail Singh

10. Red Flags Missed

11. Blind Denial

12. Horizon- Bashing Bandwagon

13. A Lack of Expertise

14. Shutting Down Transparency

15. Errors on Repeat

16. The Case against the Defence

17. Long Live the King

18. New Lawyers, Familiar Mistakes

19. Trouble in Sight

20. The Second Sight Report

21. Covert Recordings, Secret Meetings

22. This Has to End

23. Like a Naughty Schoolgirl

24. The Doomed Mediation

25. The Lawyer the Post Office Needed

26. A Question of Independence

27. Abusing the Privilege

28. See You in Court

29. Adversarial Litigation or Crossing a Line?

30. A Poorly Judged Request

31. The Difficult Second Judgment

32. Settling the Debate

33. No-Plane Jane

34. Analysis