Archives :
November 2024
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The price of justice – £50m and counting
Nick Wallis
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
Nick Wallis
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
Nick Wallis
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
Nick Wallis
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
Nick Wallis
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
Nick Wallis
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…