Posts tagged "Without Prejudice"
A village sub-post office in Mundesley, Norfolk, with Post Office signage, red awnings and a customer at the door
5 September 2026 Investigations

The SRA was going to prosecute the Post Office’s lawyers. Then it stopped.

The Post Office told wrongly-accused postmasters their compensation offers were secret, and couldn’t be shown to anyone but a lawyer. That wasn’t true. They could have shown the offers to friends, other postmasters and the media – but the Post Office gagged them. The Solicitors Regulation Authority spent three years investigating, and was going to […]
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30 May 2023 Investigations

How the Post Office gagged postmasters with false confidentiality claims

The Post Office is finally paying compensation to the thousands of postmasters who it falsely accused of theft in the 2000s. Most of these postmasters are unrepresented, and have been pushed into accepting settlement offers that are insultingly low. How did the Post Office achieve this? By intimidating postmasters into not comparing offers with each other, not speaking to friends and family, and not going public. All by falsely asserting that the offer letters were confidential – an assertion that had no legal basis.

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