Post Office lawyer advises against sharing critical Horizon report, former chairman tells investigation

Tim Parker said he regretted following advice not to give the council the 2016 Swift report, which questioned whether the Post Office had sufficient evidence to prosecute sub-postmasters. By means of James Sillars, Business Reporter @SkyNewsBiz Wednesday, July 3, 2024 7:12 PM, UK A former Post Office director told the Horizon IT scandal investigation that … Read more

Former Post Office chairman denies hiding key Horizon report – BBC News

Image source, Post Office Horizon IT research Article information Author, Tom Espiner Role, BBC business reporter Reporting from Post Office Horizon IT research July 3, 2024, 4:33 PM BST Updated 2 hours ago Former Post Office chairman Tim Parker has denied deliberately hiding a key report he commissioned into the Horizon IT system from members … Read more

Amazon, the NFL and the Post: Jeff Bezos’ plans for Washington hit snags

Three years after Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post for $250 million, the Amazon billionaire made another Washington acquisition that was arguably just as important to Georgetown’s social life: a mansion in the capital’s posh Kalorama Heights neighborhood for 23 million dollars. His 2016 purchase of a former textile museum that would become the city’s … Read more

Post office system not a scandal, ex-union boss insists – BBC News

Image source, Post Office Horizon IT research Item information Author, Tom Espiner Role, BBC business reporter June 21, 2024 Updated 8 hours ago The Post Office’s Horizon system is “very robust” and the only scandal is that the company has failed to properly defend it, according to a man tasked with representing sub-postmasters. George Thomson, … Read more

Post office system not a scandal, ex-union boss emphasizes

The Post Office’s Horizon system is “very robust” and the only scandal is that the company has failed to properly defend it, according to a man tasked with representing sub-postmasters. George Thomson, the former leader of the National Federation of Sub-Postmasters (NFSP), said in a long-running investigation: “The Horizon system is not the scandal, the … Read more

Post office system not a scandal, ex-union boss insists – BBC News

Image source, Post Office Horizon IT research Item information Author, Tom Espiner Role, BBC business reporter June 21, 2024 Updated 9 hours ago The Post Office’s Horizon system is “very robust” and the only scandal is that the company has failed to properly defend it, according to a man tasked with representing sub-postmasters. George Thomson, … Read more

Washington Post publisher Will Lewis has ties to the PR firm that bears his initials

Washington Post publisher Sir Will Lewis faces a PR crisis, with his own newspaper and rivals investigating his past as a senior executive at Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. It’s the kind of problem Lewis was until recently trying to solve for clients of his communications and consulting firm WJL Partners, named after his initials. Founded … Read more

Sir Alan Bates hits out at Post Office ‘incompetence’ after data breach | Computerweekly

Campaigner Sir Alan Bates has criticized the ‘utter incompetence’ of Post Office bosses after learning that a document containing the names and addresses of the scandal’s victims had been published on the Post Office website. The document, titled ‘Confidential Settlement Deed’, was discovered by journalist Nick Wallis and has since been removed from the website. … Read more

SRA is investigating twenty lawyers and companies over the post office scandal

More than 20 investigations are underway into lawyers and law firms linked to the Post Office scandal, the Solicitors Regulation Authority announced today. The regulator is investigating those who worked on behalf of the Post Office or the Royal Mail Group at the time hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrongly accused of theft over data from … Read more