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2022
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Compensation, Cuckfield and a play called False Accounts
The compensation catches Good evening Firstly here is my latest blog post on the delays to compensation for Subpostmasters. It follows on from my newsletter last week. Thanks to everyone who forwarded me information. Everything anyone sends me about any matter will be treated in the strictest confidence and never published without express permission. Sources…
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Where’s all the (interim) money gone?
Plus: another book talk postponement Hi everyone I was contacted today by several former Subpostmasters who were claimants in Bates v Post Office. It seems 400 civil litigants who don’t have ‘complex’ cases have been apportioned the £19.5m set aside by the government as interim compensation, but 100 or so people, some of whom are…
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Letter to the DPP
Hi everyone I hope all is well with you. I’m writing to you from a hotel terrace in sunny Budapest, overlooking the beautiful Eiffel (yes that Eiffel) designed railway station. Yesterday I had to give an introduction to the Post Office Scandal to a room full of European Vodafone lawyers. I have not been so…
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Podcast Ep 6 – The Richards
81 convictions now quashed Hi everyone I was meant to go to the Court of Appeal on Monday to witness five more convictions being quashed. Sadly I couldn’t make it due to illness, but thanks to the joy of having someone to work with on this story, Rebecca Thomson made it along to interview one…
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More convictions to be quashed, and Sunday’s talk in Sale
81 convictions quashed by Monday Hi there Another postmaster will likely become the 76th to have their conviction quashed today at 10am at Southwark Crown Court. Nalini Joshi was convicted in 2001 of four counts of false accounting. Her case was assessed by the Criminal Cases Review Commission. The CCRC concluded that data from the…
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New Podcast!
Investigating the Post Office scandal Hi everyone I am pleased to be able to announce the launch of “Investigating the Post Office scandal” – a podcast by Rebecca Thomson and me. Rebecca will be known to you as the journalist who broke the story of the Post Office scandal after speaking to Lee Castleton, Alan…
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More book talk dates
It’s nice to be back Hello! Warm out, isn’t it? This is just a very quick email to let you know that more dates have been added to the theatre talks I am doing on the Post Office scandal. There are now five dates at the end of this month/early July in Shoreham, East Grinstead,…
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Panorama marks first anniversary of historic Court of Appeal ruling
First anniversary of historic ruling Hi there Apologies for the recent radio silence. I have been out in the USA covering Johnny Depp’s legal travails. Court days are around 16 to 17 hours long. Up at 4am, travel to court, queue up for a wristband, get into the court building at 7am, wait three hours…
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Post Office Scandal theatre tour annoucement
Three dates confirmed Hi I am very pleased to tell you that “Post Office Scandal: The Inside Story” will be starting a wee, three-date theatre tour of southern England later this year, hopefully with more dates and northerly/westerly locations to follow. I have written a blog post explaining how it all came about here. This…
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Compensation for the 555 confirmed
plus another conviction quashed… Hi there Apologies for the delay in getting this out to you. I was hosting a business conference in Liverpool yesterday, and whilst I had a good idea things were going to go crazy, I was only able to switch my phone on to check it sporadically. The conference itself made…