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Real matters where the outcome turned on technical evidence, and how our experts built it to survive scrutiny. Drawn from the public record.

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Case Study·Software, Systems & Source Code

Bates v Post Office

15 January 2024 · 7 min read

One of the most consequential IT disputes in English legal history turned on a single question: could the Post Office's Horizon accounting system produce shortfalls in a branch's accounts that were not the sub-postmaster's fault? EVO's founder, Jason Coyne, acted as the claimants' independent IT expert, and the court preferred his evidence.