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Parmod Kalia 1958 – 2026
Parmod Kalia has died. He was 67. His family announced the news on Tuesday, saying “our beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle has passed away. He was a guiding light in our lives. His love, wisdom and warmth will stay with us always.” Parmod was one of the most decent men I have ever…
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Post Office and Fujitsu file their defence against Lee Castleton
The Post Office and Fujitsu have finally filed a defence to former Subpostmaster Lee Castleton’s July 2025 claim against them at the High Court. It is a partial defence in the light of a recent judgment which ordered a split trial approach to the litigation (see here and below). Lee seeks the opportunity to pursue…
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The Trials of Lee Castleton
Arcane legal argument aside it was a fairly straightforward day in court. Lee Castleton and his team wanted a trial of all the issues in his claim against the Post Office. The Post Office (and Fujitsu) argued it would be easier, quicker and cheaper to first see if Lee was still bound by the Bates v…
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Lee Castleton’s case against the Post Office and Fujitsu
There are three documents of interest in this blog post. The first is a 41-page Particulars of Claim, filed on 10 July 2025 by former East Bridlington Subpostmaster Lee Castleton against the Post Office and Fujitsu. He is seeking a ruling that the 2007 judgment against him was obtained by fraud and £4m in damages.…
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No action taken against Post Office barrister who broke the rules
Some of the Subpostmasters who had their convictions quashed at the Court of Appeal in 2021 have been sent a letter notifying them that Nick Vamos, a barrister working for Peters and Peters, the law firm acting on behalf of the Post Office, was “not authorised” to carry out the litigation he conducted. The letter,…
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Sir Alan Settles – for how much?!
On 23 October 2003, the North Wales Weekly News published a letter from Alan Bates, the sacked Postmaster at Craig-y-Don Post Office near Llandudno. In his letter, Alan railed against the behaviour of the Post Office, its Horizon computer system and apologised to his customers that their village branch had closed. “I can assure everyone…
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Restorative Justice Council Subpostmaster report pt 1 arrives
In July this year, as part of Volume 1 of his final report, the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry chair Sir Wyn Williams required Fujitsu, the government and the Post Office to deliver a report “outlining any agreed programme of restorative justice and/or actions taken by that date to produce such a programme.” The Post Office,…
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Police spend £7.2m on PO investigation in 5 years, interviewing 4 people
The police have spent £7,246,000 since 2020 investigating possible crimes committed by Post Office and Fujitsu execs relating to the Horizon scandal. In five years the detectives working for Operation Olympos have conducted a total of seven interviews with four people. No arrests have been made. The investigation began shortly after the judge in the…
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Now at least thirteen suicides directly linked to Post Office Scandal
Part one of Sir Wyn Williams’ report into the Post Office Horizon scandal has landed. He makes a total of nineteen recommendations, crunches a number of significant figures and as per the headline to this piece, reveals the number of lives lost as a direct result of this scandal. Dealing with the most significant statistic…
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Nick Gould “removed from professional duties following serious concerns”
Aria Grace Law have issued a longer statement, following a piece I published about Nick Gould on Friday. It’s worth reading in full. Formal Statement from Aria Grace Law CIC We issue this statement in response to the article published by Mr Nick Wallis on 6 June 2025 concerning Mr Nick Gould and the legal…