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Mr Bates vs The Post Office drives mass public recognition of Horizon miscarriages
The ITV drama 'Mr Bates vs The Post Office' drives mass public recognition of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal. A statutory exoneration process follows later in 2024, exonerating hundreds of wrongly-convicted sub-postmasters. The Horizon case is the closest UK template for how a mass miscarriage of justice eventually gets corrected — and its timeline (convictions from 1999 onwards; first Court of Appeal quashings 2021; statutory exoneration 2024) is instructive for what a Letby review timescale might look like.
Source: ITV drama reception; subsequent Horizon statutory exoneration Act 2024
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The nearest events this site records in the same category (new evidence). This site records 17 events in 2024.
- Royal Statistical Society publicly corrects Sir Roy Meadow — Sally Clark caseOctober 2001
- Dutch Supreme Court acquits Lucia de Berk14 April 2010
- Independent independent expert re-analysis filed with CCRCOctober 2025
- Court of Appeal quashes Angela Cannings's conviction — the Cannings principle established19 December 2003
- Francis Report on Mid Staffordshire — the NHS whistleblowing framework6 February 2013
- Kirkup Report on Morecambe Bay — the NHS cluster framework3 March 2015