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UK prime property
Property sales slow but intrepid commuters are chuffed with Cheltenham
...“Homes at £1.25mn-£1.4mn are the sweet spot,” says Bates. “The sticking point is above £1.5mn.”...
December 27, 2023
News updates from April 9: OpenAI and Meta ready new AI models; EU launches probe into Chinese wind turbine companies
Campaigner Alan Bates was dismissed by Post Office for ‘becoming unmanageable’
...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....
April 9, 2024
FT Live
Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?
Exclusively for FT subscribers
Wednesday, 8 MayDigital Conference
Post Office scandal
Campaigner Alan Bates accuses government of ‘vindictiveness’ in treatment of Post Office victims
...Slides written by a former Post Office managing director noted: “Bates had discrepancies but was dismissed because he became unmanageable....
April 9, 2024
Alex Chalk
Cases like Mr Bates vs the Post Office must be funded
...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...
March 3, 2024
LexITV PLC
ITV needs a ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’ moment Premium content
...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....
March 9, 2024
Alan Bates
Alan Bates: Why I wouldn’t beat the Post Office today
...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...
January 12, 2024
FT Live
Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific
Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region
Thursday, 16 MayHong Kong
Television
Mr Bates vs The Post Office and TV that jolts viewers and governments into action
...Mr Bates vs The Post Office might appear less incendiary on paper — it is, at its most basic, a story about accounting....
January 11, 2024
News updates from April 9: OpenAI and Meta ready new AI models; EU launches probe into Chinese wind turbine companies
UK officials ‘far more guilty’ than ministers in Post Office scandal, inquiry told
...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...
April 9, 2024
Post Office scandal
Post Office scandal victims call for the ‘truth’ as next phase of inquiry begins
...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...
April 8, 2024
Letter
Letter: Russia’s looting soldiers tell real story of its economy
...Bate Toms Kyiv, Ukraine...
October 20, 2023
News in-depthPost Office scandal
How a Post Office drama galvanised Britain
...“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.”...
January 9, 2024
Post Office scandal
UK government vows to protect litigation funding that helped sub-postmasters
...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...
January 15, 2024
Letter
Letter: Capping litigation funding fees would be a mistake
...is considering a cap on those fees....
March 6, 2024
Letter
Letter: Business that bankrolled postmasters puts its case
...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...
March 15, 2024
Post Office scandal
UK government looking at plans to exonerate sub-postmasters
...Davey did subsequently meet Bates but said he deeply regretted failing to unearth the scandal, arguing that he was misled by Post Office executives....
January 7, 2024
FT Live
Innovative Lawyers Summit
Guiding business in a new global age
Wednesday, 11 SeptemberLondon, UK
Sovereign bonds
Bonds are back
...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....
February 26, 2024
Post Office scandal
Sunak announces legislation to overturn Post Office scandal convictions
...Sunak’s spokesperson said the prime minister backed calls for Bates to be given a knighthood....
January 10, 2024
Post Office scandal
‘All parties had a role to play’: Britain’s MPs admit failure over Post Office scandal
...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...
January 10, 2024
UK politics
Former Post Office chief Paula Vennells hands back CBE
...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....
January 9, 2024
Work WatchEmma Jacobs
Workers and bosses opt for Christmas payments over parties
...“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.”...
December 7, 2023
ReviewTelevision
Breathtaking — ITV Covid drama takes us to the front lines of the pandemic
...ITV’s last social-issues drama, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, inspired a long-overdue outcry about a hitherto little-known national scandal....
February 20, 2024
ReviewFilm
The Miracle Club — Maggie Smith brings gritty severity to Lourdes pilgrimage comedy
...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....
October 12, 2023
ReviewTheatre
Othello at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London — crackling with danger
...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...
January 31, 2024
Letter
Letter: No long-term get-out for bad short-term policies
...Apart from going against the trend of the past 300 years for specialisation among businesses and economies, a trend which has helped grow GDP and raise productivity, one cannot ignore the actions...
December 21, 2023
ITV PLC
ITV profits fall by two-thirds on lower advertising revenues
...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...
March 7, 2024

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