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The Post Office told the select committee in December that legal fees had made up £136m of the cost of administering the Post Office-led schemes since 2020, which is around 27% of the ...
It said that legal fees have made up £136 million of the cost of administering the Post Office-led schemes since 2020 – 27% of the actual compensation paid out.
The Business Secretary has said the Post Office’s corporate culture is at the root of the Horizon scandal, but has insisted the organisation is still “an incredibly important institution in ...
The Post Office recorded a total of £816m in "exceptional expenses" for the year to 31 March 2024, which includes the legal and running costs as well as the money spent on compensation and ...
[165] Shortly afterward, the government promised "fair and speedy" pay-outs for the 555 victims of the Horizon IT scandal who had been excluded from the Post Office's compensation scheme. [ 166 ] In July 2021, the government announced that subpostmasters wrongly convicted of offences would get interim compensation of up to £100,000.
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 ...
Bates & Others v Post Office Ltd was a UK group legal action taken by 555 subpostmasters against Post Office Limited, commonly known as the Post Office, the state-owned post office company. It was heard by Justice Fraser in the High Court between 2017 and 2019. Six judgments were handed down, two of them dealing with substantive matters while ...
The inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal, which saw more than 900 sub-postmasters prosecuted for stealing because of incorrect information from the Horizon computer system, ends this week.