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Oct 11, 2024 Analysis

New evidence: the Post Office deliberately designed its compensation scheme to deter postmasters from applying

A document disclosed to the Post Office Inquiry, and published yesterday, shows that the Post Office considered requiring that postmasters pay a fee before applying for compensation. The intention was to deter applications. Realising this would be criticised, the Post Office instead designed a scheme which achieved the same effect through stringent (and unrealistic) eligibility […]

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Oct 1, 2024 Analysis

The Post Office – pushing postmasters to accept £75,000 compensation without legal advice

Postmasters previously offered derisory compensation by the Post Office are being given a new opportunity to claim under an independent appeals process. The Post Office has written to them offering the choice of appealing, or accepting a £75k flat payment. It’s one or the other – a difficult decision for which postmasters should receive detailed […]

Jun 20, 2024 Analysis

The Post Office – reckless with postmasters’ personal data; abusing data privacy to protect itself

The Post Office recklessly published the names and addresses of 550 wrongfully convicted postmasters. But it takes a very different attitude to its own data privacy, running frivolous GDPR arguments to cover up its corporate failings. This is how the Post Office protected the data privacy of the 550 wrongfully convicted postmasters: But the Post […]

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‘lost my post office, house and marriage
- now I've been shafted twice’:
Postmaster who lost out in Horizon IT
scandal now forced to hand back £322k
compensation

¢ Francis Duff, 80, suffered a divorce and lost his home in the Post Office scandal
« He's now been told he'll be forced to hand £322,000 compensation back

By TOM WITHEROW, SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 15:57 BST, 16 February 2023 | UPDATED: 15:59 BST, 16 February 2023

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Apr 4, 2024 Investigations

The Post Office’s top priority is covering-up its mistakes

The Post Office’s incompetent compensation process left thousands of postmasters with large tax liabilities. When we revealed this, the Government forced the Post Office to fix the situation – but the Post Office did so far too slowly. New Freedom of Information Act disclosures reveal that, when we identified this new problem, the Post Office’s […]

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Mar 30, 2024 Analysis

The Post Office has finally stopped intimidating postmasters into silence; but it’s too late

Aside from the labelling of nil offers which we accept was inappropriate, and without waiving privilege in their advice, our legal advisers confirmed that the ‘Without Prejudice’ label on offers of financial compensation was entirely correct and proper as a matter of law and recommended that we keep the labelling on such offers.

Jan 17, 2024 Analysis

Do Post Office failures stop it from suing Fujitsu?

Fujitsu has indicated that it’s willing to help compensate victims of the Post Office scandal. But will this be a small voluntary contribution, or can the Post Office sue Fujitsu to recover some of the £1bn cost of the Horizon scandal? We’ve spoken to leading commercial litigation lawyers, and we’re concerned that the Post Office’s […]

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As at the balance sheet date the Company was engaged in discussions with HMRC regarding potential taxation
liabilities that could arise in relation to past events but for which no liability has currently been recognised. The
outcomes of the ongoing discussions with HMRC represent possible obligations arising from past events, whose
existence will be confirmed only by the occurrence or non-oecurrence of one or more uncertain future events not
wholly within the control of the Group.

While the Directors recognise that an adverse outcome could be material, they are currently unable to determine
whether the outcome of the discussions would have a material adverse impact on the consolidated position of the
Group and are unlikely to be able to do so until the discussions with HMRC are substantially concluded. The
Directors continue to keep this under close review.

Jan 12, 2024 Investigations

The Post Office unlawfully claimed £934m tax relief for its compensation payments, and now faces an unexpected £100m tax bill.

The Post Office has claimed a £934m tax deduction for its compensation payments to the victims of the Post Office scandal. That’s outrageous – and also unlawful. The consequence is that the Post Office has underpaid its corporation tax by over £100m over the last five years, and may no longer be solvent. We understand […]

Jan 11, 2024 Investigations

The Post Office paid £15.75 compensation to one of its victims. Here’s the nine ways they minimise payouts.

I keep going back to this Daily Mail story in which a postmaster who was financially ruined received only £8,000 compensation. How could that happen?

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Dec 20, 2023 Investigations

More Post Office scandal: its incompetence leaves 1,100 postmasters with a £10k tax bill

We reported earlier this year that, when the Post Office finally paid compensation to some of the victims of the Post Office scandal, it left many postmasters with large unforseen tax liabilities. The Post Office agreed to fix this by making “top-up” payments to postmasters to cover the tax. But it’s been so slow at […]