In an article for the Guardian in May, Bates wrote: “If the Horizon scandal has taught us anything about our legal system, it’s that it is skewed in favour of those with deep pockets.
“Large corporations can exhaust their opponents’ reserves – both in terms of finances and resilience.
“A prime piece of evidence for this is an internal Post Office memo, released as part of the current statutory inquiry into the Post Office, which only came about as a result of the findings of our original case.
“It is from Post Office lawyers pledging to: ‘stretch out the litigation process so to increase costs in the hope that the claimants, and more particularly their litigation funder, decide that it is too costly to pursue the litigation and give up’.”
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