The Latest Breaking News from the Post Office

Dan Neidle, tax lawyer, posted on X saying the Post Office claimed £934m tax relief for its compensation payments, and called it ‘unlawful’.

Robin Garbutt hopes for fresh appeal against conviction that came after jury heard evidence using data from discredited IT system

Bar Council chair Sam Townend KC says parliament should consider formal regulation of growing practice

Westminster has largely been gripped by one story this week, that of what to do about the Post Office Horizon scandal.

In response to the outcry over what he described as “one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in our nation’s history”, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has promised to overturn the criminal convictions of more than 700 sub-postmasters falsely accused of theft or false accounting between 2000 and 2014. In doing…

Letters: Readers debate problems with computer systems, denials of wrongdoing, and note that nothing is as effective in galvanising politicians as embarrassment

All three main parties have come under scrutiny for their roles in one of Britain’s worst miscarriages of justice

People behind characters in the ITV drama describe their efforts to highlight Horizon software injustices

Paula Vennells, former chief executive of the Post Office, has said she will hand back her CBE, following the outrage over the Horizon scandal that left hundreds of people prosecuted for crimes they didn’t commit. Craig Prescott, lecturer in law at Royal Holloway, University of London, answers this and other…

Following the ITV drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office, which aired on January 1 2024, UK prime minister Rishi Sunak stated he intends to introduce legislation to ensure those convicted as a result of the Post Office scandal are “swiftly exonerated and compensated”.

Attitude of organisation and its legal team is ‘disgrace’, says David Davis as Horizon scandal inquiry continues