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‘Utter disaster’: Alan Bates attacks schemes compensating post office operators

Government should not be involved in providing redress to victims of Horizon IT scandal, campaigner tells MPs

The Guardian - UK

Windrush compensation scheme needs significant overhaul, MPs told

Victims should be given legal support to help slash number of claimants denied payouts, says Windrush commissioner

The Guardian - UK

Home Office could face hundreds of claims over asylum families in single rooms

Judge in case of two families housed for years in single hotel rooms says they should have been moved within three months

The Guardian - UK

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Post Office IT scandal campaigner to reveal restoration on Car SOS to victim

The campaigner will join the Channel 4 series, fronted by Tim Shaw and Fuzz Townshend, to reveal a bike restoration to a former subpostmaster.

Evening Standard

Family speaks out after Minnesota woman dies on flight from Minneapolis to London

Rachel Green, 44, had an undiagnosed heart condition, investigators reportedly found

The Independent UK

Sir Alan Bates says ‘baddies seem to be hiding’ in Horizon scandal

Around 1,000 people were wrongly prosecuted and convicted throughout the UK between 1999 and 2015.

The Independent UK

Sir Alan Bates says ‘baddies seem to be hiding’ in Post Office Horizon scandal

On the prospect of criminal convictions, Sir Alan says: ‘I don’t think we’ll get that (justice) for a long time yet. All the baddies seem to be hiding’

Evening Standard

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Alan Bates Wins Big: Post Office Scandal Whistleblower Gets Multi-Million-Pound Settlement

Sir Alan Bates, the whistleblower behind the Post Office Horizon scandal, secures a multi-million-pound settlement after years of campaigning for justice.

International Business Times UK

Sir Alan Bates agrees multimillion-pound settlement over Post Office scandal

Government settles claim from former post office operator more than 20 years after he began his campaign for justice

The Guardian - UK

Post Office campaigner Sir Alan Bates agrees multimillion-pound compensation deal

The deal reached by the government with Sir Alan Bates could be between £4m and £5m, reports suggest

The Independent UK

Lead campaigner Sir Alan Bates has Horizon compensation claim settled

The former subpostmaster previously labelled the redress schemes as ‘quasi-kangaroo courts’.

Evening Standard

Sir Alan Bates agrees multi-million pound settlement over Post Office Horizon scandal

Sir Alan Bates is believed to have agreed a deal with the Government worth between £4million and £5million, according to reports

Evening Standard

Yvette Cooper ordered to end detention of asylum seeker with schizophrenia

Home secretary could face legal action over decision to keep 25-year-old man from Nigeria in prison

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the Post Office scandal: justice delayed, redress demanded and a nation’s shame exposed

Editorial: The public inquiry judge delivered a blistering moral verdict on a public institution that turned on its own people with devastating consequences

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UK Post Office Scandal May Have Caused 13 Suicides: Inquiry

Thirteen people caught up in a faulty accounting software scandal at British Post Office branches may have killed themselves and 59 more contemplated doing so, a public inquiry report published Tuesday said.

Evening Standard

The Post Office Horizon Scandal: A timeline of what happened and the subsequent ramifications

The timeline of events involved in the Post Office Horizon scandal goes all the way back to 1999.

The Independent UK

The key events leading up to Post Office inquiry report publication

The Post Office Horizon IT inquiry is due to publish a final report – here we look at the key events in the scandal

The Independent UK

Post Office bosses ‘maintained fiction’ Horizon was accurate, inquiry concludes

Chairman Sir Wyn Williams published the first tranche of his final report on Tuesday.

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Evening Standard

Post Office scandal drove 13 victims to suicide and dozens more considered taking their own lives, damning inquiry report reveals

Inquiry report delivers devastating assessment of the damage done by the scandal, which is one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in British history

Evening Standard

Which are the subpostmaster redress schemes and what criticism have they faced?

Many subpostmasters are still awaiting full compensation.

Evening Standard

More than £1 billion paid to those wronged by Horizon scandal, Government says

The announcement comes after lead campaigner Sir Alan Bates said redress schemes had ‘turned into quasi-kangaroo courts’.

The Guardian - UK

Billy Williams obituary

Cinematographer who won an Oscar for Gandhi but did his most adventurous work on Ken Russell’s Women in Love

The Guardian - UK

Post Office campaigner’s proposal for independent compensation body being ‘worked on’

Exclusive: Whitehall sources say model in early planning after criticism of schemes to redress victims of scandals

The Guardian - UK

Sir Alan Bates given ‘take it or leave it’ offer of less than half his Post Office Horizon claim

Campaigner calls compensation schemes ‘quasi-kangaroo courts’ after final offer made in response to his appeal

Evening Standard

Bates says Post Office scandal compensation schemes are ‘quasi-kangaroo courts’

More than 900 subpostmasters were prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 and many are still awaiting compensation.

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