‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’, ITV, January 2024, four-part TV drama written by Gwyneth Hughes, directed by James Strong, with ensemble cast lead by Toby Jones and Monica Dolan. The ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office has brought unprecedented public attention on what has come to be referred to by many as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British history. The four-part series dramatizes how the Post Office prosecuted hundreds of sub-postmasters over shortfalls wrongly reported by faulty accounting software Horizon, supplied by Fujitsu. The series begins with the prosecutions starting in the early 2000s and follows the efforts of those wrongly accused and convicted of fraud, theft, and false accounting to fight back and to find justice …
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Kajsa E Dinesson, Review: Mr Bates vs The Post Office, Law and Humanities. Published online: 29 February 2024.
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