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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 ...
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.
Paula Vennells is due to be questioned under oath on Wednesday.
The business secretary said Capture, the system which came before Horizon, could have also created accounting shortfalls for sub-postmasters who used it
The chief executives of Post Office and Fujitsu are set to be questioned by MPs over the Horizon scandal next week. Parliament’s Business and Trade Committee will meet on Tuesday to examine what ...
The series is a dramatisation of the British Post Office scandal, a miscarriage of justice in which hundreds of subpostmasters were wrongly prosecuted (privately and publicly) for theft, false accounting or fraud due to a faulty computer system called Horizon. It was broadcast on four consecutive days from 1 January 2024.
Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells is accused of overseeing what has been described as the most widespread miscarriage of justice in UK history. The scandal came back into public consciousness ...
The scandal has resurfaced following the release of the ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office.