Nick Wallis
We're all going on a walk
Ian Fagelson does London walks. Ian is a lawyer who I met for the first time at my book launch. Ian has been ridiculously helpful with...
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Nick Wallis
- 4 days ago
- 5 min
Eleanor's letter
Eleanor Shaikh (pictured) is a force of nature. She is a selfless, committed campaigner who has worked tirelessly to support her local...
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Nick Wallis
- 6 days ago
- 3 min
Press release: Horizon Scandal Fund celebrates charitable status with substantial donation
For immediate release - 22 September 2022 The Horizon Scandal Fund is delighted to have received registered charitable status ten months...
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Nick Wallis
- Sep 20
- 4 min
The compensation catch
Last week Alan Bates stunned a small, but significant number of members of the Justice for Subpostmasters' Alliance with a circular sent...
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Nick Wallis
- Sep 6
- 3 min
Barrister's letter to the DPP
Sabah Meddings (in the Sunday Times) and Rebecca Thomson (in both the Sunday Times and on our podcast, Investigating the Post Office...
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Nick Wallis
- Aug 12
- 5 min
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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