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Post Office scandal: How will the new law to exonerate victims of Horizon work?

Rishi Sunak has announced plans to overturn the wrongful conviction of over 700 postmasters since 2003

The Independent UK

Japan Tech Firm Fujitsu In Firing Line Over UK Post Office Scandal

A Japanese technology giant is in the crosshairs of British lawmakers for building the faulty accounting software that led to what has been called the country's biggest ever miscarriage of justice.

International Business Times

Post Office will struggle to rebuild brand trust – as Boeing and Facebook scandals show

The Post Office, once an iconic British brand has fallen from grace following the Horizon IT Scandal. With over 11,500 branches, it’s the largest retail franchise network in Europe, offering a variety of products – not just postal, but cash and banking, foreign exchange and government services. Post offices are…

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‘What we’ve been calling for’: post office operators welcome acquittal plan

Joy mixed with caution as victims of Horizon scandal say they hope pledge will result in concrete action after 20 years

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - The Standard View: Post Office Horizon scandal — now shame the guilty

The Post Office scandal which devastated the lives of hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses has revealed quite a lot about the way the establishment operates. Paula Vennells, the former Post Office boss who presided over the miscarriage of justice, has handed back her CBE. It leaves unanswered the question…

Evening Standard

Tell us: when did you learn of the Post Office Horizon scandal?

We want to hear from people in the UK about the role of the ITV drama in drawing attention to the scandal

The Guardian - UK

UK To Exonerate And Compensate Wrongly Convicted Post Office Staff

The UK government announced Wednesday it will unilaterally quash the wrongful theft convictions of hundreds of self-employed Post Office branch managers targeted due to faulty software, and offer them immediate compensation.

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Contaminated blood scandal: What happened and what are the victims demanding?

Thousands of people were contaminated with HIV and hepatitis C in one of the NHS's worth healthcare disasters

Evening Standard

Arise Sir Alan Bates? Post Office scandal campaigner should receive knighthood, says Cabinet minister

Esther McVey, who is known as the 'Minister for Common Sense', said he should be given the honour 'as soon as possible'

Evening Standard

Kate Middleton’s postmaster demands justice for colleagues

Hasmukh Shingadia says those responsible for the scandal must also face justice

The Independent UK

PMQs sketch: 'A plague on all their houses' after decades of political dither over Post Office scandal

All of England's major political parties are implicated in the Horizon affair

Evening Standard

Mr Bates vs the Post Office is ITV’s biggest drama in three years

Show has prompted public debate and political change regarding handling of the 1999 Post Office Horizon scandal

The Independent UK

Comedian Rosie Holt dupes followers with GMB Post Office sketch

Playing a Conservative politician on ‘Good Morning Britain’, Holt suggested that the Post Office Horizon was the fault of ITV and star Toby Jones for taking ‘so long’ to make ‘Mr Bates vs the Post Office’

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak accuses SNP of 'politicising' Post Office Horizon scandal

RISHI Sunak has accused the SNP of “politicising” the Post Office Horizon scandal.

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‘Wrecked my life’: Horizon victims tell of suffering caused by Post Office scandal

One former operator says he missed seeing dying father, as others describe horrors of prison and the stigma they suffered

The National (Scotland)

SNP call on Ed Davey to hand back knighthood over role in Post Office scandal

THE leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Davey is being urged to hand back his knighthood due to his connection to the Post Office Horizon scandal.

The Independent UK

Hundreds of UK postal workers wrongly accused of fraud will have their convictions overturned

Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he will introduce measures to overturn the convictions of more than 700 post office branch managers who were wrongly accused of theft or fraud because of a faulty computer system

The Independent UK

Post Office scandal: TV drama forces Rishi Sunak to announce new law clearing 736 convicted subpostmasters

Victims of one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history will get extra £75,000 and hope to clear their names by the end of the year

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Mr Bates vs. The Post Office is ITV's biggest drama in 3 years

Mr Bates vs. The Post Office has had the whole nation talking, and it's been a huge success for the broadcaster.

Evening Standard

Who is Alan Bates? Campaigner says Post Office is 'atrocious dead duck'

“The whole of the postal service nowadays – it’s a dead duck. It’s beyond saving,” Mr Bates said.

The National (Scotland)

New law to 'swiftly exonerate and compensate' Post Office IT scandal victims

A NEW law will be brought in so that the hundreds of innocent people sent to prison as a result of the Horizon Post Office scandal are “swiftly…

The Independent UK

Watch: Sunak faces Starmer at PMQs amid plan to quash Post Office convictions

Watch as Rishi Sunak faces Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday 10 January.

Evening Standard

Post Office scandal latest: Law to exonerate Horizon victims could be set up in six weeks, Tory peer says

New laws to clear Post Office branch managers wrongly convicted in the Horizon IT scandal could take as little as six weeks to set up, an advisory board member has said.

Evening Standard

Post Office Horizon: Victims who had lives 'wrecked' by scandal clash with postal services minister

'This is one of the worst miscarriages of justice this country has seen', said one former sub-postmistress who lost £50,000 in the scandal

Evening Standard

'When they led me to my prison cell I thought I'd died' — ordeal of Hampstead postmaster jailed in scandal

Kamran Ashraf, 46, had just become a father to his second child when he was sent to jail for a £25,000 theft he didn't commit. After decades spent living in shame and silence, ITV's drama has helped him speak out for the first time. He shares his moving story with…

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