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...Former Post Office chair Henry Staunton used an “offensive and outdated term” about a candidate for a job, according to an independent probe into conduct at the state-owned group....
...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...
...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....
...“We had to say we’re postmasters, not Post Office Limited.”...
...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....
...The probe, headed by retired judge Sir Wyn Williams since 2020, has so far taken evidence from dozens of witnesses who have attested to widespread failures by the state-owned Post Office in its pursuit of...
...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...
...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...
...Those who fought on faced an uphill battle against the Post Office, with all its legal and financial firepower....
...Purdue has never conducted any business at that address, making it little more than a post office box....
...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...
...Badenoch sacked Staunton last month after a public outcry sparked by a TV drama about private prosecutions by the state-owned Post Office between 1999 and 2015 using evidence from its faulty Horizon IT system...
...The chair of the Post Office has quit its board as the UK government said it was seeking “new leadership” for the state-owned business at the centre of the Horizon scandal....
...More than 700 cases were brought by the Post Office itself. To date, 101 Horizon convictions have been overturned....
...In a statement on social media soon after the appeals court’s decision, Trump said he would “post either a bond, equivalent securities, or cash”....
...Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells and BT chair Adam Crozier will be hauled in front of the public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal when it resumes in April....
...A New York appeals court judge last week denied Trump’s request to post a partial bond of just $100mn to stop the state from collecting on the civil fraud judgment, after his lawyers had argued that their...
...Seventy-year-old Vipin Patel, who was handed an 18-week suspended sentence in 2011 after he was convicted of fraud following an alleged £34,000 shortfall at his Post Office branch, says the state-owned business...
...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...
...The FT revealed last month that the Post Office warned ministers in January it would have opposed some 333 appeals because of corroborating evidence....
...The Post Office posted pre-tax losses of £81mn in 2022-23, down from £131mn the previous year....
...Vennells was Post Office chief executive between 2012 and 2019....
...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....
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