Nick Wallis
Secret 2016 Post Office Chairman's report not shared with PO Board
Where to start with this...? Perhaps by thanking Eleanor Shaikh, whose forensic and determined FOI campaign has been unearthing some real...
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Nick Wallis
- Jul 27
- 1 min
Podcast Episode 6 - The Richards
Subpostmaster Richard Hawkes and Professor Richard Moorhead speak to Rebecca Thomson Rebecca and I have put up another podcast. Hopefully...
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Rebecca Thomson
- Jul 14
- 4 min
Compensation Hearing 2
Bankruptcy and “severe psychiatric issues” Barristers outlined the impact on their clients caused by the Post Office Horizon scandal, and...
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Rebecca Thomson
- Jul 6
- 4 min
Compensation Hearing 1
A barrister acting on behalf of postmasters claiming compensation from the Post Office last week described the process as a “scandal...
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Nick Wallis
- Jun 16
- 1 min
Book talk dates
All the following dates have been confirmed and those with links have tickets on sale now. I am hoping to have a special guest at every...
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Nick Wallis
- Mar 30
- 3 min
Three day book tour!
The Great Post Office Scandal had next to no advertising, marketing or launch budget. Bath Publishing are a tiny (but delightful and...
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Nick Wallis
- Mar 25
- 2 min
73 convictions quashed
This week the 73rd Subpostmaster conviction was quashed. Margaret White (neé Sowinska), ran the Banbury Road Post Office in Oxford. In...
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Nick Wallis
- Mar 23
- 5 min
Treasury announces compensation for 555 civil litigants
After all the hints, it's finally happened. On Tuesday 22 March 2022, a full two years and three months after the settlement of Bates v...
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Nick Wallis
- Mar 17
- 6 min
Chirag Sidhpura's closing statement
I watched Chirag Sidhpura give evidence today. You can read about his story here, and in the live-tweets I put together whilst he was...
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Nick Wallis
- Mar 17
- 2 min
Tim Brentnall's closing statement
Tim Brentnall ran the Roch Post Office in Pembrokeshire. He was convicted of false accounting in 2010. His conviction was quashed at the...
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Nick Wallis
- Mar 8
- 6 min
Horizon remote-access 2016-style
Sue Edgar is Chair of the National Federation of Subpostmasters and a serving Subpostmaster. Her story is fascinating. The evidence she...
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Nick Wallis
- Mar 8
- 4 min
"She didn't even have the guts"
For obvious reasons I have spent many hours dealing with sacked and convicted Subpostmasters, rather than those still working. The...
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Nick Wallis
- Feb 25
- 4 min
“Good news” for the 555 “in the next few days”
This scandal has been characterised by many things, but one of the most striking is the absolute relentless determination of backbench...
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Nick Wallis
- Feb 25
- 5 min
'They never want the truth to come out.'
Malcolm Simpson was a Subpostmaster at Boxgrove Post Office near Chichester, West Sussex. Malcolm came to the inquiry on 24 Feb with his...
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Nick Wallis
- Feb 13
- 3 min
Numbers matter
The number of people affected by the Horizon scandal is a question news editors used to ask me and journalists used to ask themselves...
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Nick Wallis
- Feb 11
- 3 min
Recusal Top Dog revealed
One of the most extraordinary episodes in the Bates v Post Office group litigation was the Post Office's attempt in March 2019, in the...
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Nick Wallis
- Jan 27
- 2 min
A lot of criminals in society
In 2017, the Farncombe Subpostmaster, Chirag Sidhpura, was sacked over a £57,000 discrepancy at his Post Office branch. Chirag's case was...
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Nick Wallis
- Jan 22
- 6 min
The whites of their eyes
Howe and Co sit down with BEIS officials to see just how serious the government is about compensation On 19 January 2022 a meeting was...
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Nick Wallis
- Jan 22
- 4 min
The £1bn disaster
I recently got a call from a parliamentary friend - not an MP, but someone who works with MPs. He pointed me in the direction of a...
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Nick Wallis
- Jan 11
- 4 min
Read admits all 736 Post Office convictions are unsafe
I am not going to attempt to rehash the entire BEIS select committee hearing earlier today as you can still watch it in full here and you...
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