Indefensible
eBook - ePub

Indefensible

How Lawyers Failed to Stop the Post Office Scandal

  1. 270 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Indefensible

How Lawyers Failed to Stop the Post Office Scandal

About this book

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.

Information

Publisher
Bristol University Press
Year
2026
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781529255812
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Law Theory & Practice
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Endorsement
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Key Characters
  8. About the Author
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Preface
  11. 1 The Blame Game
  12. 2 The Start of It All
  13. 3 The Totem Poles
  14. 4 The Case That Could Have Stopped It All
  15. 5 ‘We Will Ruin You’
  16. 6 Drowning in Disclosure
  17. 7 Protect Horizon at All Costs
  18. 8 Pregnant Thief
  19. 9 Introducing Jarnail Singh
  20. 10 Red Flags Missed
  21. 11 Blind Denial
  22. 12 Horizon-Bashing Bandwagon
  23. 13 A Lack of Expertise
  24. 14 Shutting Down Transparency
  25. 15 Errors on Repeat
  26. 16 The Case against the Defence
  27. 17 Long Live the King
  28. 18 New Lawyers, Familiar Mistakes
  29. 19 Trouble in Sight
  30. 20 The Second Sight Report
  31. 21 Covert Recordings, Secret Meetings
  32. 22 This Has to End
  33. 23 Like a Naughty Schoolgirl
  34. 24 The Doomed Mediation
  35. 25 The Lawyer the Post Office Needed
  36. 26 A Question of Independence
  37. 27 Abusing the Privilege
  38. 28 See You in Court
  39. 29 Adversarial Litigation or Crossing a Line?
  40. 30 A Poorly Judged Request
  41. 31 The Difficult Second Judgment
  42. 32 Settling the Debate
  43. 33 No-Plane Jane
  44. 34 Analysis
  45. Postscript
  46. Notes
  47. Index

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