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Reporting the Post Office Horizon IT Scandal

Post Office Scandal

Reporting the Post Office Horizon IT Scandal

  • The Battle for Brisbane

    Nick Wallis

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    8 min read

    The Post Office has claimed it should not make public crucial documents written six years ago, partly on the grounds doing so could compromise the organisation’s capacity to receive a fair trial, should it ever face criminal proceedings over the Horizon IT scandal. Project Brisbane is a top-secret exercise conducted in 2020 by the Post Office’s then-lawyers Herbert Smith Freehills. It is legally privileged, which means the Post Office cannot normally be forced to hand it over to the courts or even police investigators. Today, in an information tribunal, the Post Office said handing over Brisbane “risks harming the Post…

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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. July 2026 Thu 2 July – The Great Post Office Cover-Up, Ropetackle Arts Theatre, Shoreham-by-Sea, 7pm. Live talk with visuals. Tickets here. 20% Discount code: POST20 Previous events October 2025 Sat 18 October – Parker Morris Hall, Abbey Centre, Central London – Battle of Ideas Festival – 1.45pm Podcast Live: The…

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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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