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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Ellie Crabbe

Bates says Post Office scandal compensation schemes are ‘quasi-kangaroo courts’

Sir Alan Bates has said the Government’s compensation schemes for victims of the Horizon IT scandal have been “turned into quasi-kangaroo courts”.

The former subpostmaster, who has campaigned for justice for colleagues, added that he has been offered compensation which he said amounts to less than half of his original claim.

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