Post Office Horizon scandal

Families of post office operators may be able claim Horizon compensation, says minister

The postal minister has said that family members and employees of post office branch owners who have not been eligible to make claims over the Horizon IT scandal may...

Post office operators may sue over compensation delay, Alan Bates says

Alan Bates has suggested post office operators could take fresh legal action if the government fails to set...

Fujitsu and Post Office clash over new rules on Horizon data requests

Fujitsu has begun forcing the Post Office to disclose whether Horizon data requests will be used to investigate...

Post Office considering making branch operators fund ‘losses pool’, inquiry told

The Post Office is looking into the possibility of creating a “losses pool”, funded by branch owner-operators, as...

Ministers explore plan to hand Post Office to subpostmasters

Ministers want to turn the Post Office into a co-operative and have asked business experts to investigate ways...

Post Office legal chief denies saying branch operators ‘guilty until proven innocent’

The Post Office’s legal chief has denied he ever regarded branch operators as “guilty until proven innocent”, as alleged in an internal email written...

Post Office continued to use racist term for black workers until 2016, inquiry told

Language in an infamous Post Office document that categorised branch operators as “negroid types” was common in the public sector from the 1980s but...

Former Post Office IT chief claims Horizon system has no fundamental flaw

The former head of IT at the Post Office named by the ex-chief executive Paula Vennells as one of five people responsible for the...

Post Office Horizon inquiry: former IT chief saw only ‘minor bugs and glitches’

The former head of IT at the Post Office named by the ex-chief executive Paula Vennells as one of five people responsible for the...

Post Office explores taking branch owner-operators to court again

The Post Office has recently explored resuming the practice of taking branch owner-operators to court, as mounting losses from shortfalls in its network of...

Post Office boss admits attempts to double his pay look ‘very poor’

The boss of the Post Office has admitted his various attempts to double his pay look “very poor” given so many branch owner-operators are...