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    • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
      Postmasters caught up in IT scandal awarded £19.5mn compensation

      UK ministers allot interim payouts to those who brought legal action against Post Office

    • Monday, 11 April, 2022
      Work & Careers
      Asking the right questions is crucial when computer evidence is disputed

      Faulty software led to careers and lives ruined at the UK Post Office. What can be done to challenge AI’s reliability?

    • Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
      Sunak sets up compensation scheme for postmasters who brought High Court action

      UK chancellor announces fund after former Post Office staff lose majority of £57.75mn settlement to legal fees

    • Saturday, 19 March, 2022
      Personal Finance
      British holidaymakers flock to Mexico

      Relative strength of sterling improves value for travellers to key destinations

    • Friday, 18 February, 2022
      Camilla Cavendish
      Britain’s Post Office scandal claimed hundreds of victims, but what of its villains?

      After two decades of whitewash, it is time to hold those responsible to account

    • Thursday, 17 February, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      MPs urge full compensation for UK postmasters who exposed miscarriage of justice

      The 555 claimants, including some wrongly prosecuted for theft, won case in 2019 that blamed faulty IT system

    • Monday, 14 February, 2022
      Hundreds of ‘lives ruined’ by Post Office scandal, inquiry hears

      Executives said to have known IT system was faulty but still used evidence from it as basis for prosecutions

    • Tuesday, 14 December, 2021
      UK to cover payouts for former Post Office workers wrongly convicted of theft

      Hundreds of sub-postmasters could receive compensation after dozens have convictions quashed

    • Thursday, 9 December, 2021
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      The Great Post Office Scandal — a shameful story of justice denied

      Nick Wallis’s book details how the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrecked by a misplaced faith in technology

    • Monday, 8 November, 2021
      Pressure mounts on UK government to pay postmasters’ legal bill

      Much of the £57m awarded to 555 victims of faulty IT system has been swallowed up by legal fees

    • Monday, 23 August, 2021
      The Big Read
      Post Office struggles to recover from a bruising scandal

      Facing ever greater competition and doubts over its business model, the state-owned UK group is seeking to reinvent itself

    • Tuesday, 17 August, 2021
      UK business & economy
      UK banks extend pilot scheme for sharing branches

      Political pressure mounts over access to cash for elderly and vulnerable

    • Thursday, 22 July, 2021
      UK sub-postmasters to get interim payout for wrongful convictions

      Move is a step towards full settlements for the 59 people who have won appeals related to Post Office IT scandal

    • Thursday, 22 July, 2021
      Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
      Could sharing bank branches help save the high street?

      Pilot scheme is obvious solution to maintaining access to cash — but the clock is ticking

    • Monday, 19 July, 2021
      UK Post Office criminal convictions overturned by judges

      Appeal court victory for further 12 sub-postmasters prosecuted because of faulty IT system

    • Monday, 31 May, 2021
      Sub-postmasters launch legal bid to be classed as workers

      Post Office could face multimillion-pound bill if it loses employment tribunal case

    • Friday, 14 May, 2021
      Personal Finance
      Algarve rated best-value eurozone holiday destination

      Prices fall by 16.5 per cent in ‘green-listed’ Portugal

    • Monday, 3 May, 2021
      Andrew Hill
      Why disgraced CEOs rarely fall as far or as fast as everyone else

      The Post Office scandal shows how business leaders often enjoy the benefit of the doubt

    • Thursday, 29 April, 2021
      John Thornhill
      Post Office scandal exposes the risk of automated injustice

      Court case reveals how damaging the ‘computer never lies’ mentality can be

    • Wednesday, 28 April, 2021
      Helen Thomas
      Post Office scandal shows value of litigation funds

      Third-party funders helped unlock decades of injustice suffered by 550 sub-postmasters

    • Tuesday, 27 April, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      UK should pay compensation for postmaster scandal

      Wrongful theft convictions ruined lives and damaged public trust

    • Monday, 26 April, 2021
      Former Post Office chief steps down from other board roles

      Paula Vennells leaves Morrisons and Dunelm in wake of legal battle involving 39 sub-postmasters

    • Friday, 23 April, 2021
      Sub-postmasters win historic UK court battle to clear their names

      Judges quash convictions for theft and false accounting stretching back more than a decade

    • Monday, 22 March, 2021
      UK politics & policy
      Sub-postmasters begin appeal to overturn convictions

      Some 42 cases claim they were wrongly prosecuted by the Post Office

    • Sunday, 10 January, 2021
      Sub-postmasters set to file UK lawsuits for malicious prosecution

      Move against Post Office follows quashing of several convictions related to faulty computer system

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