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Inquiry re-starts and Daily Mail lays bare compensation scandal
plus: a bit of Neidle… Hi everyone After a three week break, the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry has re-started. I’m watching it now and will aim to provide a round up of the evidence at the end of the week, probably in the form of a podcast, if Rebecca has survived her birthday shenanigans.…
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The Sethis are still waiting, more than 20 years on
plus: Gareth Jenkins on the stand Hi everyone As you may know the Horizon IT inquiry is on hiatus at the moment, but they have published their schedule taking us from the re-start on 21 February all the way through to 12 May. The big news is that former Fujitsu engineers Anne Chambers and Gareth…
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Fujitsu disclosure drop messes with Inquiry scheduling
plus Altman’s General Review – fisked! Hi there Just a quick one to keep you updated with what’s going on in Post Office land. Firstly – the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry only has four witnesses this week. We got wind something was brewing on Friday when Sir Wyn Williams warned everyone to keep a…
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Bates refuses honour, Altman Advice published, Bar Standards Board admonished
Oh – and the inquiry re-starts Hi all A busy week. Let’s start with news from Bates Country. The founder and leader of the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance has turned down an OBE for “Services to Justice”. How do we know? Bates himself informed JFSA members in a circular published on Tuesday morning. Refusing the…
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Inquiry chair publishes compensation update on eve of Phase 3
Sir Wyn: compensation “too slow” Happy New Year! I hope you all had a great break (if you were able to). There is a certain grim irony to the latest update from the Chair of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry. Sir Wyn Williams describes the progress toward compensation for some as “too slow”, yet…
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“Desperate” serving Subpostmaster pens letter to Post Office CEO, Nick Read
Also: no inquiry news before Christmas Hi there I wanted to put up this story last week, but it would have got swallowed up by the compensation hearing. It’s an open letter from a serving Subpostmaster to the Post Office CEO. Of course, a lot of those who weren’t done by Horizon were done by…
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Subpostmaster special compensation hearing report: achieving little, slowly
Show them some money It is the final humiliation. Years after being hounded out of their life-savings and livelihoods, years after beings shunned by their communities, and in many cases their own families, the finally victorious, finally vindicated Subpostmasters are finding out a brutal truth. Justice is a miserable, fleeting thing. When Alan Bates, his…
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BEIS announces details of compensation scheme for the 492
Compensation calling Hi There has been a flurry of activity this morning over compensation for Subpostmasters as the government announced details of a scheme which will hopefully get the 492 (the 555 minus those with quashed/unquashed criminal convictions who will go into the overturned compensation scheme if/when their convictions are overturned). The structure of the…
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Phase 2 of the inquiry comes to a close with some draw-dropping evidence from the NFSP
Both ends of the telescope Good morning I’m meant to be writing about Johnny Depp, so I will try to keep this brief! Over the weekend I posted up two very different stories: 1) Lisa Kear’s harrowing tale of trying to run a Post Office, which eventually broke her, financially and mentally, in November 2019.…
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A bit of exclusive content – Lisa and John share their very different stories
Both ends of the telescope Good morning I’m meant to be writing about Johnny Depp, so I will try to keep this brief! Over the weekend I posted up two very different stories: 1) Lisa Kear’s harrowing tale of trying to run a Post Office, which eventually broke her, financially and mentally, in November 2019.…