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A public inquiry in to the scandal heard final submissions in December, where it took evidence from lawyers representing the Post Office, Horizon's creators Fujitsu, and the Department for ...
The new law will apply to sub-postmasters who ran local Post Office franchises using the software, their employees or family members who were prosecuted for theft, fraud, false accounting or ...
A Post Office spokesperson said: “Post Office has co-operated fully and openly with the Metropolitan Police since early 2020 to provide whatever information it needs for its investigations.
A petition demanding compensation for people affected by the Post Office Horizon IT scandal is nearing 600,000 signatures, as campaigner Alan Bates gives evidence to the public inquiry into the ...
The British Post Office scandal, also called the Horizon IT scandal, involved the Post Office pursuing thousands of innocent subpostmasters for apparent financial shortfalls caused by faults in Horizon, an accounting software system developed by Fujitsu. Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 subpostmasters were convicted of theft, fraud and ...
The Government promised payments of at least £75,000 for subpostmasters involved in the group legal action led by Alan Bates, the subject of ITV’s drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office, starring ...
Lee Castleton OBE (born () 1 January 1969 [1] [2]) is an English former subpostmaster who was sued by the Post Office and bankrupted after his accounts showed discrepancies due the Post Office's faulty Horizon accounting software. He has since become a prominent campaigner for other victims of the British Post Office scandal.
The Post Office and Fujitsu, the Japanese company behind Horizon, have both apologized for their roles in the scandal, which became particularly acute earlier this year after a television ...