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James Christie responds to Ankit Chakrabarty's provocative claim that internal audit is dead, arguing instead that it is only doomed if boards and audit committees fail to hold themselves accountable. Christie critiques the relian...
The Ministry of Justice launched a consultation on how courts should deal with computer evidence in England and Wales. The current principles around the use of evidence generated by computer software in criminal proceedings were e...
The text is about an interaction with an AI tool called Grok, where the author challenges the tool's allegations about his career and the tool fails to provide accurate information. The author refutes the tool's claims about worki...
The text discusses the issues with the Horizon system developed by Fujitsu for the Post Office. It questions Fujitsu's stance that they did not believe Horizon would be used for criminal evidence and highlights the contradictions ...
The text is the second part of a series explaining how the Post Office and Fujitsu were vague about the purposes of Horizon, specifically the need for the system to produce evidence of sufficient reliability for criminal prosecuti...
0They didn’t know what they were doing – part 1
2025-02-06 •
The text is the first part of a series of posts arguing that the Post Office and Fujitsu didn’t understand what they were doing when they commissioned and built Horizon in the late 1990s. The author discusses the incompetence and ...
0External IT auditors – a theatrical performance?
2024-12-27 •
The text discusses the role of external IT auditors and the limitations of their expertise. The author disagrees with some points made by Dominic Connor but agrees with the wider argument. The text highlights the incompetence of C...
The Post Office IT scandal has brought attention to the presumption that computer evidence is reliable in England and Wales. The author, part of a group of IT academics, experts, and lawyers, has been campaigning against this pres...
The text discusses the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, highlighting the systemic failure and the impact on Postmasters and Postmistresses. It emphasizes the lack of accountability, transparency, and oversight in the development an...
The author discusses the presumption in England and Wales that computer evidence is reliable, criticizing the Law Commission's work and the damaging consequences of the presumption. He explains that the presumption is nonsensical ...
Eleanor Shaikh, a campaigner for the victims of the Post Office scandal, wrote a letter to the Public Inquiry regarding the role of the Government in shaping the Horizon project 1998-2000, specifically addressing the involvement o...
The text discusses the role of external auditors in the Post Office Scandal, focusing on the failings of the Post Office and Fujitsu, and the flawed business model for external audit. It also addresses the flawed reasoning of the ...
The text discusses the Post Office scandal and the role of IT audit and governance in the failure. It highlights the ignorance about the fallibility of complex software systems and the need for education in important positions. Th...
Nick Wallis’s book “The Great Post Office Scandal” provides an exhaustive account of how the Post Office’s Horizon system, developed by Fujitsu, ruined thousands of lives. The author focuses on the human and legal story rather tha...
The blog post discusses the author's negative experiences with external auditors, particularly the Big Four, and the flawed business model that serves their clients poorly. The author witnessed various instances of external audit ...