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...They were also responsible for commissioning relevant audits and setting out the UK state-owned organisation’s approach to litigation....
...Vennells, who is being investigated for misleading parliament over the Horizon IT scandal, has come under scrutiny for her decision to spend millions of pounds to contest sub-postmasters’ claims that they...
...by the Post Office itself using a general right in English law....
...Recent evidence to the inquiry has shown that Post Office executives had multiple opportunities to concede faults existed within the Horizon system, but prioritised preserving the state-owned company’s reputation...
...He subsequently said he had been told by a civil servant to stall payments to Horizon victims ahead of the general election — a claim denied by the government....
...Davey will appear in July as will officials from UKGI, the state-owned body responsible for managing the government’s ownership of the Post Office....
...sub-postmasters for account shortfalls....
...Barrister Patrick Green KC, who acted for sub-postmasters in the case, said: “The courts are saying this is a terrible injustice. Parliament’s agreeing. So what’s the big deal?”...
...The Department for Business and Trade said: “We acknowledge that the Post Office has many competing pressures, from delivering redress for postmasters who have suffered as a result of the Horizon scandal...
...Between 2000 and 2014 the state-owned Post Office prosecuted hundreds of sub-postmasters after financial shortfalls were identified at their branches as a result of faulty evidence from the Horizon IT system...
...The state-owned business’s lawyers are undertaking a review of cases and have written to some sub-postmasters where it considers there are grounds for appeal....
...The Post Office, which is state-owned, has privately told ministers it would have opposed appeals by nearly half of the 700 sub-postmasters convicted, arguing that non-Horizon evidence supported the convictions...
...Government officials said the proposal would have caused delays to compensation for victims of the scandal as sub-postmasters would be exonerated more slowly than through the legislation....
...The UK government has denied claims made by the former chair of the Post Office that he had been instructed to stall payments to sub-postmasters ahead of the general election, after critics hit out at ministers...
...Over the decades that the Post Office wrongfully prosecuted sub-postmasters using flawed evidence, the state-owned business turned to a series of lawyers to pursue the cases and then to avoid scrutiny....
...The former chair of the Post Office has released a memo that alleged he was told by a senior civil servant to stall requests for financial support and develop a plan for the state-owned business to “hobble...
...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....
...She will be joined by current BT chair Adam Crozier who was in charge of the state-owned business’ parent company, Royal Mail, for a period when it presided over one of Britain’s biggest miscarriages of...
...The state-owned Post Office acted as investigator and prosecutor in the cases, using the general right in English law for any individuals and organisations to pursue private prosecutions without involving...
...and so services to the general public can continue.”...
...“I am truly sorry for the devastation caused to the sub-postmasters and their families, whose lives were torn apart.”...
...Vennells had staunchly defended the Horizon system in public and was in charge when the state-owned Post Office spent millions of pounds battling sub-postmasters in a landmark High Court case....
...A public spat between the ousted chair of the Post Office and the UK government descended into further mudslinging on Tuesday after he claimed the state-owned company’s boss was under investigation for misconduct...
...“What biases were at play that meant this situation was allowed to persist for so long?” These are questions sub-postmasters themselves are asking....
...The writer is UK Lord Chancellor and secretary of state for justice The Horizon scandal is one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in British history, with hundreds of sub-postmasters and postmistresses...
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