Although everybody keeps going on about private prosections somehow being culpable for the scandal, it doesn't seem likely. Consider that in Scotland, private

Although everybody keeps going on about private prosections somehow being culpable for the scandal, it doesn't seem likely. Consider that in Scotland, private prosecutions are much rarer and are only permitted in certain circumstances. The post office could not and did not do private prosecutions in Scotland. So, as a result, do we observe lower rates of prosecutions in Scotland than in the wider UK? Nope! In fact, in Scotland there were 100 convictions, vs 700 in the UK as a whole. The conviction rate per capita, and hence injustice rate, was actually higher in the part of the UK doing public prosecutions, than in the part of the UK doing private prosecutions. Not exactly a vote of confidence.