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Title: UK Courts Service 'Covered Up' IT Bug That Lost Evidence

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/08/21332...

Bruce66423 shares a report from the BBC: The body running courts in England
and Wales has been accused of a cover-up, after a leaked report found it took
several years to react to an IT bug that caused evidence to go missing, be
overwritten or appear lost. Sources within HM Courts & Tribunals Service
(HMCTS) say that as a result, judges in civil, family and tribunal courts
will have made rulings on cases when evidence was incomplete. The internal
report, leaked to the BBC, said HMCTS did not know the full extent of the
data corruption, including whether or how it had impacted cases, as it had
not undertaken a comprehensive investigation. It also found judges and
lawyers had not been informed, as HMCTS management decided it would be "more
likely to cause more harm than good." HMCTS says its internal investigation
found no evidence that "any case outcomes were affected as a result of these
technical issues." However, the former head of the High Court's family
division, Sir James Munby, told the BBC the situation was "shocking" and "a
scandal." Bruce66423 comments: "Given the relative absence of such stories
from the USA, should I congratulate you for better-quality software or for
being better at covering up disasters?"

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