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September 2022
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London walks, Surrey talks and Moorhead chalks up 7 (SEVEN) blog posts on the Swift Review
…. plus: the Scottish Play(ers) Hi there Have you put the heating on yet? No. Me neither. I am currently wearing two jumpers and a hoodie and my fingers are freezing. The Swift Review Saga continues… The importance of the Swift Review has been underlined by Professor Richard Moorhead dedicating not one but seven blog…
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Press release: Horizon Scandal Fund celebrates charitable status with substantial donation
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 after its launch. The Fund is celebrating the occasion by formally welcoming a substantial donation made by Flora Page, one of the barristers who represented…
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Compensation, Cuckfield and a play called False Accounts
The compensation catches Good evening Firstly here is my latest blog post on the delays to compensation for Subpostmasters. It follows on from my newsletter last week. Thanks to everyone who forwarded me information. Everything anyone sends me about any matter will be treated in the strictest confidence and never published without express permission. Sources…
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Where’s all the (interim) money gone?
Plus: another book talk postponement Hi everyone I was contacted today by several former Subpostmasters who were claimants in Bates v Post Office. It seems 400 civil litigants who don’t have ‘complex’ cases have been apportioned the £19.5m set aside by the government as interim compensation, but 100 or so people, some of whom are…
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Letter to the DPP
Hi everyone I hope all is well with you. I’m writing to you from a hotel terrace in sunny Budapest, overlooking the beautiful Eiffel (yes that Eiffel) designed railway station. Yesterday I had to give an introduction to the Post Office Scandal to a room full of European Vodafone lawyers. I have not been so…