Rebecca Thomson and Nick Wallis cover the ongoing Post Office Horizon IT scandal. This podcast is entirely funded by donation, but it is free to listen to, either by streaming through your browser from the Audioboom website, or by searching for it in Spotify or on Apple Podcasts. We hope you like it.
30: Ep 30 – Post Office Minister on launch of GLO scheme – Investigating the Post Office Scandal
In which the Post Office Minister Kevin Hollinrake explains the new compensation scheme for Postmasters who were part of the High Court group litigation, declares the Historical Shortfall Scheme fit for purpose, says he wants people held to account over the Horizon scandal and appears ready to support a Duty of Candour law if it prevents something similar happening again. After the interview with Mr Hollinrake, Nick speaks once more to Lee Castleton, a likely applicant to the scheme, nineteen years to the day after Post Office auditors walked into Lee's branch and closed it down, setting him on the path to bankruptcy and ruining his life.
Government's compensation scheme for Group Litigation Subpostmasters: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/compensation-scheme-for-group-litigation-order-case-postmasters
Post Office Horizon IT inquiry legal advice on bankruptcies:
https://www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/legal-opinion-catherine-addy-kc-matters-relating-bankruptcy-and-compensation
A longer interview with Lee Castleton: https://audioboom.com/posts/8156279-ep-10-lee-castleton-justice-for-subpostmasters-alliance-founding-member
Rebecca's Substack page: https://rebeccathomson.substack.com
Nick's Post Office Scandal website: https://www.postofficescandal.uk/donate/
Nick's book: https://bathpublishing.com/products/the-great-post-office-scandal-updated-pbk
Rebecca's first investigation for Computer Weekly in 2009: https://www.computerweekly.com/news
Update Description
- 30: Ep 30 – Post Office Minister on launch of GLO scheme
- 29: Ep 29 – So That Was The End of Part 2 of Phase 3 of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry
- 28: Ep 28 – A bit of Neidle
- 27: Ep 27 – The Sethis wait and wait and wait
- 26: Ep 26 – Alan Bates No.B.E.
- 25: Ep 25 – The Compensation Crunch
- 24: Ep 24 – Meet the Ministers
- 23: Ep 23 – Byers Beware
- 22: Ep 22 – Dave the Destroyer
- 21: Ep 21 – The Special Laptop!
- 20: Ep 20 – Master interview: Lord Arbuthnot
- 19: Ep 19 – Dark secrets about Horizon's birth revealed
- 18: Ep 18 – Miller Time
- 17: Ep 17 – The Oppenheim Project
- 16: Ep 16 – Inquiry digs in to how Subpostmasters were set up to fail
- 15: Ep 15 – Inquiry phase 2 Wk 1: Tony Blair et al under scrutiny
- 14: Ep 14 – Inquiry Re-start Primer, David Enright interview, Crowdfunding launch!
- 13: Ep 13 – Turning the Post Office scandal into a play
- 12: Ep12 – Deirdre Connolly – a Subpostmaster who still hasn't had any interim compensation
- 11: Ep 11 – Former Subpostmaster Tim Brentnall on his secret trip to the Inquiry
- 10: Ep 10 – Lee Castleton: Justice For Subpostmasters Alliance founding member
- 9: Ep 9 – Being John O'Sullivan, Rebel with a Cause
- 8: Ep 8 – Paul Marshall on the Secret Chairman's Review and why he wrote to the DPP
- 7: Ep 7 – Interview with Dr Hannah Quirk, miscarriages of justice expert
- 6: Ep 6 – Richard Hawkes on his quashed conviction and Professor Richard Moorhead on legal ethics
- 5: Ep 5 – Postmaster and CWU rep Mark Baker signs off
- 4: Ep 4 – The Statutory Inquiry's Second Compensation hearing
- 3: Ep 3 – Statutory Inquiry Postmaster compensation hearing (at The Oval!)
- 2: Ep 2 – More Postmaster convictions quashed at Southwark Crown Court
- 1: Ep 1 – Introducing Rebecca, Nick and the Post Office scandal