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...“Homes at £1.25mn-£1.4mn are the sweet spot,” says Bates. “The sticking point is above £1.5mn.”...
...Alan Bates, a former sub-postmaster, was removed from his post in 2003 after he refused to make up accounting shortfalls he alleged at the time had been generated by the Post Office’s Horizon IT system....
...Slides written by a former Post Office managing director noted: “Bates had discrepancies but was dismissed because he became unmanageable....
...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...
...UK government officials deterred ministers from engaging with sub-postmasters in the Post Office Horizon scandal, according to a lead campaigner.Alan Bates, a former sub-postmaster, told a public inquiry...
...Mr Bates vs The Post Office might appear less incendiary on paper — it is, at its most basic, a story about accounting....
...Bates was the lead claimant in a 2019 High Court case, which concluded several “bugs, errors and defects” meant there was a “material risk” Horizon was to blame for the faulty data used in Post Office prosecutions...
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...“I just want to be able to take you on holiday again,” Mr Bates tells his partner at one point. “You know, a proper holiday. Abroad, not just camping.”...
...In a Financial Times article published on Friday Alan Bates, a former sub-postmaster who heads the campaign group Justice for Sub-postmasters Alliance, added his voice to concerns that the “essential financing...
...That said, bassists Jimmy Garrison and Cecil McBee deliver a mood-setting masterclass of drones and strums and Coltrane’s harp, fleshed out by guest tamboura and harmonium, engrosses....
...is considering a cap on those fees....
...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...
...Davey did subsequently meet Bates but said he deeply regretted failing to unearth the scandal, arguing that he was misled by Post Office executives....
...Sunak’s spokesperson said the prime minister backed calls for Bates to be given a knighthood....
...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....
...In a 2004 letter to the MP representing accused sub-postmaster Alan Bates — who became a campaigner for those wrongly accused and was the subject of the TV drama that has galvanised public outrage over the...
...Carnegie also had a much more positive influence on civilisation during his working life than did Cecil Rhodes or Alfred Nobel, whom the letter writer also mentions....
...More than 1mn people signed a petition calling for Vennells to be stripped of her honour, after the screening of an ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office this month raised awareness of the scandal....
...Cecil Rhodes was a racist and imperialist who established an entire British colony based on brutal exploitation....
...“We’ve been going for 22 years, and normally have [a sit down dinner at a local pub] every year,” Paula Bates, managing director, says. “Covid put a stop to it, and it hasn’t happened since.”...
...ITV’s last social-issues drama, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, inspired a long-overdue outcry about a hitherto little-known national scandal....
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