Alan Bates

Tuesday, 15 October 2024

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Post Office picked comments backing Horizon IT system from damning judgment, emails show

The Guardian 14 Oct 2024

More than 550 post office operators – including Alan Bates and Jo Hamilton who were portrayed in the hit ITV drama on the Horizon IT scandal – ...

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Post Office inquiry: Horizon claim process ‘designed to be difficult’

The Times/The Sunday Times 11 Oct 2024

Alan Bates and his fellow sub-postmasters were “completely denied access to any information or records”, the judge at the 2019 High Court case said. TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD POHLE ... UK. Society. Related articles ... October 08 2024, 8.00pm. Tom Witherow ... .

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Post Office believes it took £36m from subpostmasters with unexplained losses

Computer Weekly 11 Oct 2024

Alan Bates ... Former subpostmaster Alan Bates, who ‘pulled up trees and moved mountains’, turns down OBE offer ... Civil servants more to blame for Post Office cover-up than ministers, says Alan Bates.

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Post Office set to axe in-house-developed New Branch IT software

Computer Weekly 11 Oct 2024

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Paula Vennells has not been held to account, her Post Office successor suggests

AOL 10 Oct 2024

Mr Read told the inquiry ... The ordained priest, who was at the helm of the organisation during Sir Alan Bates’s High Court battle with the organisation, said she was “very, very sorry” for the sufferings of those affected ... .

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Sub-postmistress who was sacked and bankrupted after her husband was wrongly accused of stealing...

The Daily Mail 10 Oct 2024

Mrs Blakey - who was part of the Group Litigation Order (GLO) brought by Sir Alan Bates in 2019 - added that most of their share of the compensation they received was ‘taken up by legal costs, which left us very little’ ... Mr Blakey added ... .

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Post Office dragging its feet getting rid of tainted staff, despite government ‘green light’

Computer Weekly 10 Oct 2024

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Under-fire Nick Read was unprepared for Post Office challenge

Computer Weekly 09 Oct 2024

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Post Office branches could close as bosses consider axing more than 2,000 jobs in a ...

The Daily Mail 08 Oct 2024

Thousands of jobs are at risk as the Post Office is considering cutting two-thirds of roles in a bid to reduce costs ... the Horizon system) ... EXCLUSIVE. Revealed ... Alan Bates, a leading campaigner for victims of the Horizon IT scandal ... .

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Post Office IT transformation project was ‘set up to fail’, chairman tells inquiry

Computer Weekly 08 Oct 2024

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Protect funding system that helped Bates sue Post Office, government told

The Observer 07 Oct 2024

The government is being urged by consumer champions and truck hauliers to introduce urgent legislation to protect the funding mechanism that helped campaigner Sir Alan Bates sue the Post Office.

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Post Office boss Nick Read ‘inadequate, greedy and self-interested’, whistleblowers tell inquiry

Computer Weekly 07 Oct 2024

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Post Office Horizon IT inquiry: the issues that CEO Nick Read needs to explain

AOL 07 Oct 2024

A key theme of the final phase of the inquiry is to examine the cultural change at the Post Office, in the years since the 2019 high court victory led by Alan Bates uncovered the appalling treatment ...

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