Law exonerating subpostmasters should have ‘legally binding’ redress timeframe
A law aimed at quashing the wrongful convictions of subpostmasters caught up in the Horizon IT scandal should include a legally binding timeframe for redress offers, the chairman of the Business and Trade committee has said.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill “marks an important step forward in finally clearing” the names of hundreds of wronged branch managers who have had their lives “callously torn apart”.
Committee chairman and Labour MP described it as a “problem” that a legally binding timeframe had not
