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Reporting the Post Office Horizon IT Scandal

Lee Castleton’s case against the Post Office and Fujitsu

Nick Wallis

Fri 23 January 2026

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Lee Castleton outside the High Court’s Rolls Building on 23 January 2026

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.

You can download that here:

Castleton v Post Office and Fujitsu – Particulars of Claim Download

The next are relevant to the directions hearing about the above claim which took place at the Rolls Building on 23 Jan 2026.

The first is the Claimant (Lee Castleton) skeleton argument, which you can download here:

Claimant’s Skeleton Argument re 23 Jan hearing Download

And this is the Post Office’s response:

Post Office Skeleton Argument re 23 Jan hearing Download

And this is Fujitsu’s skeleton:

Fujitsu Skeleton Argument re 23 Jan hearing Download

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2 responses to “Lee Castleton’s case against the Post Office and Fujitsu”

Victor Lilley

January 24, 2026 at 4:31 pm

I particularly sympathised with Lee Castleton in the documentary. I have had about £500,000 in costs against me, although over 16 cases regarding infringement of my copyright claims. This is for 15m infringements resulting in £3,500m in damages. Apart from the corrupt solicitors and barrister, I found the Judges corrupt. I found Nick Wallis’ misleading in this regard. I thought there was some legislation saying the computer systems had tto be assumed to be right. So the fault lay with parliament and the judges hands were tied. I’ve found out later this was not the case and it was only by case law. So I find judges are not being critercised as they should be. In my cases, I find the judges side with the defendants, who are large printed magazine publishers and represented, and are otherwise unfair. Plus they uphold as unlawful that which is lawful, which is treason according to Lord Bingham. For example they quoted case law which they purported said that for online infrongement you had to claim for downloads, This was untrue. I am claiming for infringement by publishing. The difference in one case was £452m for publishing and about £100 for downloading. My claim was struck out for not claiming downloading, but the other side was given permission to apply to strike out the claim, if I did, on grounds of disproportionality. So I want to see more reporting on Judge’s corruption (failure to uphold the Rule of Law). I wish Lee Castleton, Justice and Right (Magna Carta 1297 XXIX)

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Jeremy Dawson

January 24, 2026 at 7:31 am

I see the problem as being in the original Settlement Deed.

It seems natural that the lead claimant (or whoever is managing the litigation)
should be able to negotiate a settlement which terminates the proceedings and
sets out to what extent each side has won or lost, and the payment of costs.
But here we have a Settlement Deed which contains separate obligations binding
all claimants (who have not been consulted about the terms of the settlement).
That seems wrong, I’m surprised it can happen.
(There are rules which apply after any litigation is finalised,
preventing you from bringing essentially the same claim again,
and I’m not suggesting these shouldn’t apply to a settled group litigation).

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Lee Castleton’s case against the Post Office and Fujitsu

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