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No prosecutions of Post Office/Fujitsu staff until 2027 – possibly 2028
Hello! After covering the story on Times Radio on Thursday evening, I helped provide some information for a piece by Ali Mitib in the Times today about the likelihood of prosecutions of those responsible for the Post Office scandal. The bad news is that any prosecutions won’t start until 2027 and possibly not before 2028.…
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Issy Hogg
Good morning Some very sad news. Issy Hogg, the criminal defence solicitor for Subpostmasters Jo Hamilton and Seema Misra (amongst others), has sadly passed away. Like Lisa Busch, Issy was another unsung legal hero of this scandal. You can read more about Issy’s life and work here. If you have any tributes to Issy you…
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The price of justice – £50m and counting
Hello! I was working in my kitchen yesterday with tech guru Andrew, whose technical skills keep Post Office Scandal website from breaking free of its tethers and floating off into space. Andrew just happened to mention he’d come across an obscure corner of the Post Office Inquiry website in which its financial reports had been…
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Lisa Busch, unsung legal hero of the Post Office scandal dies and The Kemi Badenoch Show comes to the Inquiry
Morning Some very sad news. Lisa Busch KC has died after a short illness. Lisa is one of the unsung heroes of the Post Office scandal. This blog post explains her role in the Hamilton appeals in 2021. I got to know Lisa subsequently, and she was just lovely. A very compassionate and bright woman.…
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Chisholm carefully removes his fingerprints, Hollinrake kicks off and the first Post Office musical comes to town
Morning Whilst I should have probably have been watching the Inquiry yesterday, I took the afternoon off to go and see Make Good, the Post Office scandal musical. I’ve written up my experience of doing that here. Go and see it if you can. Sir Humphrey shows a clear pair of heels Since my last…
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Coming to terms with a surprise victory – the people have spoken
We won! Thank you. Hello I would not normally lead on winning an award, but I have you to thank. In September, when I asked you to vote for The Great Post Office Trial in the Radio Times Screen Test Awards audio category, I felt our chances of winning were tiny to slim. By last…
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Post Office Inquiry: Slippery Recaldin flatters to deceive
Morning! First of all, thanks to the multiple correspondents who got in touch after my last newsletter to point out that I had rendered the new £0.8bn element of Rachel Reeves’ compensation announcement for Subpostmasters as a measly £800,000 (especially the person who told me I meant £8,000,000,000). I should, of course, have written £800,000,000,…
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Treasury increases Subpostmaster compensation provision to £1.8bn
Hi there We’re heading towards the end of the Inquiry’s two-week half term break, so I thought I’d send you a round-up of the various news lines which have appeared since I wrote to you last week from Dublin. Compensation pot expands The government has finally put aside some serious money for victims of the…
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New: HCAB demands quashing of all Capture convictions
Good morning from murky Dublin! I spent yesterday afternoon addressing the Institute of Directors (IoD) in Ireland on the subject of corporate governance at the Aviva stadium, or as most people know it, Lansdowne Road. Last time I was in Dublin, Taylor Swift was playing the Aviva stadium. We could hear her as we walked…
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Remote Focus on Foat
Hello there Today’s Inquiry hearing started at 9am this morning, which necessitated an early start. I managed to fight my way through the commuters to Aldwych House in London, which was more that today’s witness, Ben Foat, Post Office General Counsel, managed. As you can see from the screenshot above, Foat gave evidence remotely. If…
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