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November 2021
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Inquiry Confirms All Compensation Is Under Scrutiny
A week is certainly a long time in this story. Last Friday I was telling you Alan Bates had pulled the JFSA from the Statutory Inquiry into the Post Office Horizon Scandal because scrutiny of the compensation for the 555 was not explicitly present in the inquiry chair’s List of Issues. Bates encouraged his members…
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Seven More Convictions Quashed
Seven more Subpostmaster convictions have been quashed at the Court of Appeal, bringing the total number to 72. This represents just under a tenth of the 738 people convicted using Horizon evidence between 2000 and 2015 when the Post Office stopped prosecuting people. Pauline Stonehouse, Greg Harding, Angela Sefton, Anne Nield, Janine Powell, Marisa Finn…
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JFSA Withdraws From Inquiry
Founder says “the powers that be have decided the real and desperate needs of the victims are of no importance.” Alan Bates, the leader and founder of the Justice for Subpostmasters’ Alliance has decided not to co-operate with Sir Wyn Williams’ statutory inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT disaster. Yesterday, Sir Wyn published the…
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Six More Convictions Quashed – Total Now 65
These were the first convictions quashed since July and the third round at Southwark Crown Court. As of today, the Southwark Crown Court has overturned sixteen convictions (six on 11 Dec 2020 and two on 14 May 2021) and the Court of Appeal has quashed the remaining 51 (39 in a judgment handed down on…
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Launch Day
Please forgive the indulgence of marking the launch day of my book with a blog post. It has been a very strange year. I am used to collaborating with people on broadcast projects, or firing off short blog posts. Putting together a 500 page monster over five and a half months has been another matter…
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Sir Wyn Receives Privilege Waiver
If you don’t ask, you don’t get. After hearing several arguments from knowledgeable and expert legal types at his statutory inquiry’s first open hearing last week, the chair of the inquiry, Sir Wyn Williams, took the initiative. He wrote to the Post Office, the government (specifically the Business department and UKGI, its corporate arm) and…
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What Sir Humphrey Told Swinson
An enthusiastic follower of the Post Office Horizon Scandal has unearthed a document via the Business department which I am sure will be of interest to Sir Wyn Williams’ statutory inquiry. John O’Sullivan asked BEIS to send him (via the excellent whatdotheyknow.com website) any briefing documents given to Jo Swinson about Horizon when she took…
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Sir Wyn Requests Privilege Waiver
Inquiry chair writes to the Post Office, Fujitsu and government immediately after hearing Today’s hearing at Juxon House (in the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral just over the Millennium Bridge from the Tate Modern, hence the picture above) was described by Sir Wyn Williams as the first “truly open session” of the Post Office Horizon…
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Post Office Inquiry Hearing Preview
Once again, disclosure and privilege come to the fore The perennial frustration with this scandal is the Post Office and government’s jealous guarding of documents which might provide evidence of serious wrongdoing. It has taken eight years to find out the Post Office Head of Security ordered the shredding of documents in 2013. What other…
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Welcome…
The crowdfunded Post Office Trial website is being put into storage. This new website – postofficescandal.uk – will continue to report into the Post Office Horizon Scandal. Hello and welcome to the first blog post of a new website dedicated to the Post Office Horizon IT Scandal. It is an attempt to start pulling various…