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The government is already looking at the Post Office's role in the compensation schemes. Between 1999 and 2015 hundreds of sub-postmasters were prosecuted and convicted based on information from a ...
The Post Office's figures for legal costs related to the inquiry do not include the money it has spent paying compensation to wrongfully convicted sub-postmasters. The Post Office recorded a total ...
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.
[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. [167]
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.
Sir Alan Bates (born 1954 or 1955) is a former subpostmaster and a leading campaigner for victims of the British Post Office scandal, in which thousands of subpostmasters were accused of dishonesty when faulty Post Office accounting software created shortfalls in their accounts.
Sarah Osolinski, 65, who ran the Gaer Park Post Office in Newport, South Wales, from October 1996 to June 2010, said: “This whole experience has been a living nightmare.”
Government to announce plan for Post Office Horizon compensation in July Abbie Llewelyn, Will Durrant and Nick Lester, PA political staff July 18, 2024 at 11:04 AM