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...A former Post Office executive has denied misleading the courts when giving evidence in the Horizon scandal....
...Post Office chief executive officer Nick Read has been “exonerated of all the misconduct allegations” against him following an external investigation, according to the company, after a public spat with the...
...Cook said a majority of prosecutions during his tenure had been led by the Post Office but “it never occurred to me that the Post Office was the sole arbiter of whether or not that criminal prosecution would...
...be overturned unless new evidence could be presented by the Post Office....
...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....
...He noted that Pat McFadden, former Post Office minister and current Labour campaign chief, wrote to him in 2009 stating that any complaint was a matter for the arm’s length Post Office....
...Former Post Office chair Henry Staunton used an “offensive and outdated term” about a candidate for a job, according to an independent probe into conduct at the state-owned group....
...In a response, the Post Office informed Bates at the time there was nothing “inherently wrong” with Horizon. He said: “The Post Office was always in the right and you were always in the wrong....
...Had we begun from a position where the Post Office had been shown to be a reliable and truthful witness then things might have been different and Burnett’s proposed Court of Appeal process could indeed apply...
...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...
...UK MPs are exploring options of sanctions on a former Post Office chief executive amid fresh allegations that she misled parliament over the Horizon IT scandal....
...Prosecutions brought by the Post Office in the Horizon scandal had been “quite compelling”, a public inquiry has heard....
...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....
...The show does make some disparaging references to the British state, which owns the Post Office. But that state is not so much a dark, controlling force as a quagmire....
...sub-postmasters were convicted in cases brought by the Post Office using data from a faulty IT system in 1999....
...The UK Post Office Horizon inquiry will push ahead with several months of evidence despite being beset by the late disclosure of documents....
...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...
...Britain’s Post Office Horizon scandal blights the reputation of nearly everyone it touches....
...Susan Hawley is of course correct and in quoting the ills of the Post Office identifies an elephant in the room....
...On the outskirts of Sheffield in the north of England there is a busy atmosphere in the village Post Office....
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