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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

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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.

International Business Times

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.

Evening Standard

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.

The Independent UK

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’.

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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

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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

The Independent UK

Alan Bates hits out at ‘quasi kangaroo court’ Post Office payouts system

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

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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.

Evening Standard

Mr Bates Vs The Post Office wins Bafta but fight for victims ‘not over yet’

The four-part series tells the story about subpostmasters being wrongly convicted of offences such as fraud because of faulty software.

The Independent UK

Mr Bates Vs The Post Office and Baby Reindeer in running for top TV Bafta awards

ITV will be honoured with the Bafta TV special award for commissioning Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, which renewed attention on the Horizon scandal.

The Independent UK

ITV awarded top Bafta honour for ‘changing hearts and minds’ with Mr Bates vs the Post Office

The public impact of the real-life drama will be rewarded at the Bafta TV Awards

The Guardian - UK

Julie Christie at 85: her 20 best films – ranked!

To celebrate the Oscar-winning actor’s birthday this week, we look back at the highlights of a six-decade career, from early classics such as Doctor Zhivago and Billy Liar to later roles in Finding Neverland and Away From Her

Evening Standard

Bates urges Horizon victims to take Government to court over redress delays

The lead campaigner told subpostmasters it would ‘probably be the quickest way to ensure fairness for all’.

Euronews

'Independent film is almost dead': MPs call for urgent action to save British film and TV

MPs warn that the UK’s film and TV industry is in crisis, with independent production collapsing under the weight of streaming giants - and call for urgent government action to protect British stories, jobs, and talent.

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