Horizon IT scandal: has Goliath won?
By Tony Collins Have Post Office officials, despite a series of highly critical High Court judgements against them, escaped masterfully from what Boris Johnson called a “scandal”? BBC Radio Wales has...
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By Tony Collins The Post Office Horizon IT scandal became part of legal history yesterday when the Criminal Cases Review Commission referred an unprecedented 39 potentially unsafe criminal convictions...
View ArticleIs the State (apart from Boris Johnson) content for the Post Office IT...
By Tony Collins Boris Johnson agreed in February to an “inquiry” over what he called a “scandal” and a “disaster” that has befallen many Post Office workers. But civil servants and their ministers want...
View ArticleA message to ministers Paul Scully and Alok Sharma: your decision could...
By Tony Collins As ministers with the Post Office in your remit, you could change the lives of hundreds of families by setting up a judge-led inquiry. Or you could do what your predecessors did when...
View ArticleThe civil service may face an investigation into maladministration over Post...
By Tony Collins Campaigners for justice over the Horizon IT scandal have launched a bid to raise £98.000 to try and hold the civil service to account over its failed oversight of the Post Office that...
View ArticlePost Office IT scandal: do business committee MPs firmly back victims or...
Tony Collins Business committee MPs have asked politely for a judge-led inquiry over the Post Office IT scandal. But they also conditionally welcome the business minister’s announcement of a “review”....
View ArticleIs government “review” into the Post Office IT scandal a parody?
By Tony Collins Business ministers have repeatedly used the word “independent” to describe their planned review of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal. In the space of 15 minutes, Lords business...
View ArticleWhy have junior ministers – but not Rees-Mogg or Boris Johnson – played down...
By Tony Collins To Commons’ Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg and prime minister Boris Johnson the Horizon IT scandal could hardly be a more serious matter. Johnson described locking up people, removing their...
View ArticleMinisters plan hasty review of the Post Office IT scandal before more facts...
By Tony Collins The full truth has yet to unravel over the Post Office IT scandal – but more disclosures are likely in the next few months when the Court of Appeal starts the first hearings into...
View Article50 more lawyers are hired over the Post Office IT scandal: not a great way to...
By Tony Collins In a settlement statement last December, the Post Office seemed to mark an end to a long dispute with sub-postmasters over its Horizon branch accounting system. More than 550...
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