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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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