AFAIK - sub postmasters have a contract with the Post Office
AFAIK - the Post Office has a contract with Fujitsu
As sub-postmasters have no contractual relationship with F and F have no control over the decision taken by the PO to prosecute sub-postmasters, I don't think Fujitsu are directly liable.
The PO may have a claim on F if they can prove that F failed to deliver that which was contracted or in some way manipulated live data or systems.
IMHO the PO were at the very least incompetent in their management of the F contract, may likely have been negligent, and quite possibly corrupt in covering up failings they were aware of in F systems to avoid the public embarrassment of an expensive failure.
Its the cover up that get them in the end!!
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