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...More than 700 prosecutions were brought by the Post Office itself....
...Investigators were critical of the Post Office’s handling of sub-postmasters’ complaints, while executives accused them of reaching biased conclusions....
...the business,” the Post Office said on Wednesday, without releasing the report....
...Some 700 cases were brought by the Post Office itself....
...of disclosure and could lead to the Post Office opposing hundreds of appeals....
...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...
...“I have no doubt that there’s a bit of vindictiveness coming in from the department [for business and trade] and the Post Office,” Bates said....
...The former Post Office chief handed back her CBE following calls from the public that she should be stripped of the honour....
...Her report found that Staunton, who became chair in 2022, had said of one candidate for the role of senior independent director on the Post Office board’s words along the lines of: “She doesn’t look coloured...
...The next phase of the UK Post Office Horizon public inquiry will resume this week, marking the penultimate chapter of an independent probe into one of the country’s biggest miscarriages of justice....
...But this critically misses one material aspect which goes to the heart of the Post Office fiasco....
...Alan Cook, managing director of the business between 2006 and 2010, said that cases brought by the Post Office had featured strong evidence but he had been unaware for a period in the job that the organisation...
...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....
...Emails between Alan Cook and colleagues at parent company Royal Mail in 2009 shared with a public inquiry showed the former Post Office boss raised doubts around the veracity of claims made by sub-postmasters...
...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...
...Read, who was appointed to lead the business in 2019, is one of a number of individuals who are the subject of an internal misconduct investigation, the Post Office confirmed on Tuesday....
...Britain’s Post Office Horizon scandal blights the reputation of nearly everyone it touches....
...On the outskirts of Sheffield in the north of England there is a busy atmosphere in the village Post Office....
...The inquiry heard that Vennells told ministers in 2012 the courts had always found in the Post Office’s favour, despite evidence to the contrary....
...The former chair of the Post Office railed against the scandal-hit organisation’s chief executive Nick Read and accused him of bullying the business’s former human resources director, in a letter to MPs...
...The government will introduce unprecedented legislation on Wednesday to quash all convictions in England and Wales relating to the Post Office scandal, one of the UK’s biggest miscarriages of justice....
...“Why did the [Post Office] board not question the level of fraud implicit in all these cases?...
...Those who fought on faced an uphill battle against the Post Office, with all its legal and financial firepower....
...The Post Office said: “Nick Read has at times felt the weight of Post Office’s awful history on his shoulders....
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