New laws to clear Post Office branch managers wrongly convicted in the Horizon IT scandal could take as little as six weeks to set up, an advisory board member has said.
"The Government has moved very quickly and the [ITV] drama has had a galvanising effect," said Conservative peer Lord Arbuthnot, who is a member of the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board, which met on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak earlier announced the legislation, vowing that victims would be "swiftly exonerated and compensated".
A new upfront payment of £75,000 "for the vital GLO group of postmasters" will also be introduced, Mr Sunak told the Commons.
The spotlight is also turning on IT giant Fujitsu, after its faulty accounting software Horizon helped lead to the conviction of more than 700 Post Office branch managers.
Meanwhile minister Esther McVey has said she wants a knighthood for Alan Bates, who has led a decades-long fight for justice for subpostmasters.
