• Sir Alex Chisholm KCB was one of the most powerful government civil servants during a crucial phase of the Post Office scandal, and to nerds like me, his evidence was always going to be of some interest. Chisholm made it quite clear (watch it here) he was crawling all over the Post Office’s disastrous defence to the Bates v Post Office group litigation, but that every duff decision was its to make alone. “I was very clear in my advice to the Secretary of State”, Chisholm told the Inquiry, “that the department need to be a neutral party in relation to…

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Simon Recaldin: The Process Gnome

Simon Recaldin is both in charge of the Post Office’s remediation approach and wholly at the whim of it. He claims he is trying his damnedest to get compensation to Subpostmasters post-haste whilst also agreeing the whole process takes too long. “Could it be quicker? Could it be more efficient?”…

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Independent board demands quashing of ‘Capture Convictions’

Professor Christopher Hodges OBE UPDATE: A government spokesperson has today [25 October 2024] issued the following statement in response to the HCAB’s letter: “The Post Office Offences Act 2024 was a truly exceptional response to unprecedented circumstances where hundreds of convictions based on evidence from the Horizon system were considered…

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Ben Foat: On His Terms

Would you trust this man? What a difference a bit of time off makes. The last time Ben Foat was questioned by the Inquiry, he looked like a rabbit in the headlights, nervously surveying the mess he’d made of the Post Office’s disclosure responsibilities. Today Foat gave evidence from a…

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It’s Mike’s World. We just live in it.

It seems like we’ve got the Post Office scandal all wrong. The moment in 2012 the Post Office caved and finally agreed to get independent investigators Second Sight into the building was nothing to do with the campaign by MPs and Alan Bates’ Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance. It was, in…

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Post Office misleads public inquiry over compensation

Nick Read, Post Office CEO, on day 2 of his evidence The Post Office Chief Executive has admitted withholding important information from the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry. The revelation came right at the beginning of the second day of Post Office Chief Executive Nick Read’s testimony to the Inquiry,…

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The Untouchables: someone’s lying

It’s only a minor point, but it speaks to integrity, so I’m going to make it. Nick Read – current Post Office chief executive – has been “accused” of describing certain people within the organisation as “untouchables”. During his first day of evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry…

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Police interview third suspect in Post Office scandal investigation

Four-and-a-half years after their investigation into the Post Office scandal began, the Metropolitan Police have finally interviewed a third suspect under caution. The two other individuals were interviewed in October 2021 and again in September 2022. They are believed to be former Fujitsu engineers Gareth Jenkins and Anne Chambers. The…

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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. November 2024 Friday 8 November – Panel Q&A after matinée performance of Make Good, a musical about the Post Office scandal. 2.30pm, Clapham Omnibus Theatre, London. Tickets here. Thursday 14 November – 9th Oxford Annual Fraud Conference, 3.20pm (part of an all day event) at Oxford Town Hall. Presentation with Second…

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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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