The Post Office Horizon scandal provoked public outrage across the UK. The wrongful prosecution and conviction of innocent sub-postmasters was a scandal that shook the British justice system.

The ITV dramatisation, Mr Bates v The Post Office, powerfully brought home the human impact of this shocking miscarriage of justice.

Yet it also introduced more of the British public to the growing role third-party litigation funding is now playing in the legal system, including in funded insolvency litigation.