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Project Brisbane to Remain Secret
Eleanor Shaikh has lost her court bid to have a single line in a government email unredacted. The line related to a top secret Post Office report called Project Brisbane. The Post Office has maintained that Brisbane and everything related to it is “legally privileged”, which means it is exempt from Freedom of Information (FOI)…
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Postmaster announces legal action over Capture redress scheme
Former Subpostmaster Lee Bowerman has announced his intention to “pursue legal action” over the financial compensation offer he has received through the Capture Redress Scheme. Writing to the Department of Business, Bowerman said it “follows my complete loss of confidence in the fairness, transparency and integrity of the assessment process and a scheme which is…
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Shoreham, Ropetackle Arts Theatre 2 July: The Great Post Office Cover-Up
On Thursday 2nd July I will be delivering my first (and so far only) public talk this year on the Post Office scandal. It will be at the Ropetackle Arts Theatre in Shoreham-by-Sea and I’m very much looking forward to it. A lot has happened since we did that run of dates in 2024. I…
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Another Compensation Scheme Gets Another Appeal Mechanism
A new appeal mechanism for applicants to the (now closed) Post Office Horizon Shortfall Scheme (HSS) has been announced by the government. This follows a direct recommendation from the Chair of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry in July last year. The HSS was first announced in 2020. In those days it was called the…
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Redress scheme for families of Post Office victims announced
The government has today announced a new compensation scheme for families of those affected by the Post Office scandal. It looks to have support from at least one victims’ group and the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board, an independent body which has done quite a bit to shape government thinking about this scandal. The scheme is…
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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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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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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…
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Lawyer threatens legal action against victim of Horizon scandal
A victim of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, Seema Misra, has been threatened with legal action over a £60,000 bill by one of her former lawyers, Nick Gould. Gould worked pro bono (for free) with the barristers Flora Page and Paul Marshall, doing the groundwork in 2020 on Seema’s successful appeal against her conviction…
