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February 2022
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“Good news” for the 555 “in the next few days”
plus more from the inquiry… Hello hello Proper compensation for the 555 looks ever more likely given the tenor of yesterday’s debate in parliament. How it will arrive and whether the Bates v Post Office settlement agreement will be unpicked as part of it remains to be seen, but the Business minister Paul Scully says…
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Post Office Inquiry brings new tales of misery
Inquiry opens to growing public anger Hello there It’s hard to overstate the significance of the last six days. The Post Office scandal now, finally, has the same level of public awareness as the infected blood scandal, Windrush and/or the Mid-Staffordshire NHS hospital scandal. I knew Monday was going to be a big media occasion…
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Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry formally begins today
Subpostmasters give impact statements Good morning I’m sitting somewhere in the bowels of New Broadcasting House waiting to go on the BBC News Channel, having just done a quick turn on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. It is the first day proper of the Statutory Inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal and I have…
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Oops. Sorry. New version of the last email but with working links this time…
What was Lord Neuberger thinking? With apologies – I failed to put the right links to my big exclusive on Lord Neuberger in the last secret email. They have been changed in the email below so you can actually link through to the story this time. The rest of the email remains identical. Thanks to…
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Ex-President of the Supreme Court advised Post Office on recusal of judge
What was Lord Neuberger thinking? Hello! Sorry I’ve been a bit quiet recently, I have been holed up in a studio for six hours a day recording the audiobook version of The Great Post Office Scandal. It took seven days. The completed item is 18 hours long. It was recorded at the RNIB Talking Books…