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Reporting the Post Office Horizon IT Scandal

Post Office Scandal

Reporting the Post Office Horizon IT Scandal

  • Sir Alan Settles – for how much?!

    Nick Wallis

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    On 23 October 2003, the North Wales Weekly News published a letter from Alan Bates, the sacked Postmaster at Craig-y-Don Post Office near Llandudno. In his letter, Alan railed against the behaviour of the Post Office, its Horizon computer system and apologised to his customers that their village branch had closed. “I can assure everyone I will not give up on this issue” said Alan, “whether it takes three months or three years.” It took 22 years. Today Sir Alan Bates settled his claim against the Post Office. Sir Alan refused his first compensation offer in January 2024, saying it…

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Sir Wyn Williams, Chair of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry The hearing room was packed today as Subpostmasters, their supporters, lawyers, journalists and members of the public attended a long day of submissions at Aldwych House in London. First out of the blocks was Ed Henry KC who sought…

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Hello and welcome to Post Office Scandal – a website dedicated to covering the multi-faceted, ongoing, Post Office Horizon IT scandal.

My name is Nick Wallis, I am a journalist and I am responsible for the content on this website. You can contact me here.

I have written a book called The Great Post Office Scandal, fronted a Radio 4 series, co-written a Private Eye special and been involved in three Panoramas as (variously) producer, presenter and consultant.

The predecessor to this website is Post Office Trial, which covered the Bates v Post Office High Court litigation and the subsequent hearings at the Court of Appeal.

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You can find below dates, locations, and links to ticket details for any live events I’m doing in the near future. If you’d like me to speak at, give a presentation to or host one of your events, please get in touch via the contact form on this website. October 2025 Sat 18 October – Parker Morris Hall, Abbey Centre, Central London – Battle of Ideas Festival – 1.45pm Podcast Live: The Booking Club With Jack Aldane – a discussion on Kafka’s The Trial, its relevance to the Post Office scandal and state overreach in modern Britain. Ticket options here.…

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35: Ep35 – Paul Scully MP, former Post Office minister – Investigating the Post Office Scandal

In which Nick interviews the former Post Office minister about his experience of taking office in the weeks after the Bates v Post Office settlement, overseeing the establishment of the Post Office Horizon Inquiry and the various compensation schemes.
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Hello, my name is Nick Wallis. I am a freelance journalist. This website is designed to be a hub for my activity reporting the Post Office Horizon Scandal. Most of the work I have done on this story is crowdfunded. The crowdfunding pays for the journalism on this website. Occasionally I get lucky and someone pays me to do a bit of broadcast or newspaper journalism, which I am always grateful for. I have presented, produced and consulted on three BBC Panoramas about the Post Office scandal. I have written about it for Private Eye (with the genius that is…

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