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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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Closing statements: Day 2 – Circular Firing Squad
There were some good points made today, but the main one was a big shrug – “not me, mate”. In this blog post I’m going to focus on what was said by the various core participants’ barristers. For more on what it was like to be there and why there’s a basket full of chocolate…
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Exclusive: Post Office fails in compensation clawback attempt
Publicly, the government has said it is determined to compensate Subpostmasters affected by the Post Office scandal “as soon as possible”. Behind the scenes it seems determined to drag things out to a ridiculous degree. Earlier this year both the Post Office and the government decided that money gifted to Subpostmasters with criminal convictions, by…