The Post Office Scandal
Lessons For Criminal Lawyers
Speaker: Flora Page KC
Date: 2025
CRIMINAL
Flora Page KC has expertise in corporate and financial crime, and she has also been
instructed in serious conspiracies and crimes involving murder, protest, drugs supply and
sexual offending. She is on the Serious Fraud Office’s panel list of King’s Counsel, and the
Government Legal Department’s list of King’s Counsel. Flora has spoken at many
conferences on a variety of subjects, and is now a part-time PhD Candidate at UCL,
researching a new approach to corporate integrity.
Flora is known for her work on the Post Office appeals and the Post Office Horizon IT
Inquiry; what is said to be the most significant miscarriage of justice today. She begins by
outlining how to determine who has the burden of proof, before moving on to share key
considerations when advising on a plea.
Key words/topics:
Post Office appeals
The Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry.
The burden of proof
Credit for a guilty plea
Advising on a plea
Affront to the public conscience
A fair trial
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