Synopsis of Mr Bates vs The Post Office
It follows a faulty IT system called Horizon, developed by Fujitsu, which creates apparent cash shortfalls that cause Post Office Limited to pursue prosecutions for fraud, theft, and false accounting against several subpostmasters across the UK. In 2009, a group of these, led by Alan Bates formed the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance. The prosecutions and convictions were later ruled a miscarriage of justice after the Bates & Others v Post Office Ltd judicial case in 2019.