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...“Homes at £1.25mn-£1.4mn are the sweet spot,” says Bates. “The sticking point is above £1.5mn.”...
...Internal Post Office slides noted that Bates was “dismissed because he became unmanageable. Clearly struggled with the accounting and despite copious support did not follow instructions”....
...Bates told the inquiry: “They [the Post Office] didn’t like me standing up to them, they were finding it awkward.”...
...Alan Bates was one of the postmasters who tenaciously led that charge but, writing in the FT recently, he argued that a legal challenge would be difficult to mount were a similar situation to arise today...
...The ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office achieved the remarkable feat of jolting the UK government into action over the decades-long Horizon accounting software scandal in Britain....
...The writer is a former sub-postmaster and founder of the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance Thanks to the TV drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office, the Horizon scandal and the plight of hundreds of sub-postmasters...
...‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’ is available on ITVX...
...Bates met Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats, when he was postal affairs minister in the 2010 coalition government....
...He was also the subject of an ITV drama that aired in January, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, which triggered public outcry and forced ministers into action....
...Bate Toms Kyiv, Ukraine...
...Indeed, one counterintuitive aspect of Mr Bates is how Conservative MPs are shown....
...Bates was the lead claimant in a groundbreaking High Court action that in 2019 exposed bugs, errors and defects in the Horizon IT system used by the Post Office....
...Alex Chalk’s op-ed highlights many of the benefits of litigation funding, including access to justice for claimants, like the Post Office sub-postmasters, in David and Goliath cases (“Cases like Mr Bates...
...The Post Office case was not a “no win, no fee” deal, and Therium did not earn £46mn of the £58mn settlement as referred to in justice secretary Alex Chalk’s op-ed and elsewhere (“Cases like Mr Bates vs...
...Sunak’s spokesperson said the prime minister backed calls for Bates to be given a knighthood....
...Davey did subsequently meet Bates but said he deeply regretted failing to unearth the scandal, arguing that he was misled by Post Office executives....
...Bäte was talking about its asset management business in general, so maybe Allianz Global Investors — its other asset manager arm* — accounts for some of this....
...Although Davey subsequently met Bates he continued to distance the government from the case, maintaining that ministers could not intervene in legal proceedings....
...Alan Bates, founder of the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance, previously declined an OBE stating it would be inappropriate while Vennells retained her CBE....
...“One guy says he gets his turkey and party food,” Bates says. This is in addition to a bonus....
...Also aboard is Chrissie (Laura Linney), back from exile in the US and trailing a legacy of resentment — a figure disapproved of by all including Eileen (Kathy Bates), her one-time best friend....
...ITV’s last social-issues drama, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, inspired a long-overdue outcry about a hitherto little-known national scandal....
...The toxic masculinity of the environment also surges out from the stage: Poppy Gilbert’s warm Desdemona and Charlotte Bate’s savvy Emilia look vulnerable amid all the backslapping and bro-talk — the real...
...productivity, one cannot ignore the actions that will accompany such localisation: increased trade barriers, distorting subsidies, anti-competitive concentrations, all of which exacerbate...
...ITV’s studios business — which produces TV shows for its own channels and other broadcasters and streamers, such as Mr Bates vs The Post Office, ITV’s biggest new drama in more than a decade — increased...
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