Campaigner for justice, once labelled a 'nutter' and a 'thief' knighted for his work to expose the Post Office scandal

LIB Dem leader Sir Ed Davey was slammed last night for snubbing postmasters wrongly accused in an accounting scandal. A letter which resurfaced today shows the then Postal Affairs Minister turning …

A reference to Horizon was removed from Royal Mail prospectus by Paula Vennells in the eleventh hour

Computer Weekly has investigated the Post Office Horizon scandal since 2008 and is, in fact, part of the story. This guide covers essential information about the scandal.

A second independent potentially damning report into the allegedly faulty IT system used by subpostmasters may never see the light of day and will not be discussed in detail by the group set up to ...

How Fujitsu has so far avoided a huge lawsuit in relation to its role in the Horizon scandal.

Computer Weekly has investigated the Post Office Horizon scandal since 2008 and is, in fact, part of the story. This guide covers essential information about the scandal.

Computer Weekly has investigated the Post Office Horizon scandal since 2008 and is, in fact, part of the story. This guide covers essential information about the scandal.

Second controversial Post Office system was the work of developers in its own IT operation.

The Post Office’s attempts to protect the Horizon system are well known today, in light of the findings of an ongoing statutory public inquiry and a recent TV drama, but Computer Weekly can reveal...

As Paula Vennells faces statutory public inquiry into Horizon scandal, Computer Weekly compiles some of its must-read articles about the controversial former Post Office boss

Labour peer uses urgent question to uncover who, if anyone, in government was aware of the Post Office’s attempts to remove judge as it became clear it was losing.

In 2003 subpostmaster Alan Bates had his contract terminated when he refused to comply with Post Office policy. A decade and a half later, against the odds, he took the Post Office to the High cour...

Head of communications at the Post Office painted a rosy picture of the error prone Horizon system when challenged

Telegram from British Embassy in Tokyo to UK government reveals pressure on ministers to sign off controversial contract.

While subpostmasters fight tooth and nail for justice and financial redress, Fujitsu continues to target millions of UK taxpayer pounds.

A campaigning former subpostmaster told Surrey Police he suspected a ‘possible criminal offence’ when he found details of a Post Office prosecutor withholding evidence in a 2010 trial.

People behind characters in the ITV drama describe their efforts to highlight Horizon software injustices

A campaigning former subpostmaster told Surrey Police he suspected a ‘possible criminal offence’ when he found details of a Post Office prosecutor withholding evidence in a 2010 trial.

Subpostmasters, MPs and the public call for a full statutory judge-led public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal, following another damning court judgment.

Over the last 15 years, Computer Weekly has learnt that Alan Bates and the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance (JFSA) don’t give up, and it would be crass to disregard their plans.

Executives at the Post Office today are still in denial of the part they played in destroying the lives of thousands of people.

Almost immediately after joining the Post Office Alice Perkins was told about software problems and was concerned about a misbalance of power in the Post Office’s relationship with Fujitsu.

Known errors log concerning Horizon IT system set to be announced during second High Court trial in subpostmasters’ long-running dispute with Post Office over financial losses.

Social media, a trade union and tech expertise helped former subpostmasters expose Post Office bug myth.

Fujitsu engineers could make changes to Post Office branch accounts without anyone knowing.

Government was aware of Post Office strategies to supress subpostmaster group's campaign for justice

Government says it wants to ensure a fair pay-out for the 555 subpostmasters who defeated the Post Office in a legal battle but were then excluded from the resulting compensation scheme.

Leading KC names Post Office staff he believes perverted the course of justice when crushing subpostmaster in court.

Angela van den Bogerd leaves position as Post Office director quietly, despite many years of service.

Just like victims of child abuse, I suspect that issues of trauma, fear, feelings of shame and a complete loss of trust in authority are some of the powerful inhibitors preventing victims of the Po...

The Criminal Courts Review Commission (CCRC) reviews subpostmasters' claims of wrongful prosecution by the Post Office due to IT problems

Email from Post Office IT support reveals a problem with the Horizon system and supporting processes that can lead to accounting errors

Executive’s failure to provide terms of reference for a controversial Post Office investigation into its own computer system resulted in a one-sided whitewash report.

As the Post Office replaces its controversial Horizon software, a former Post Office IT executive describes disastrous mistakes of the past.

A former judge who chaired a scheme set up by the Post Office to settle claims against its Horizon system said he told Post Office bosses that their prosecutions of subpostmasters "didn't make sense."

The Metropolitan Police are looking into investigating potential corporate and individual crimes committed in the Post Office Horizon scandal.

The current rules around digital evidence are partly to blame for the widest miscarriage of justice in UK history.

Computer Weekly spoke to the barristers at Henderson Chambers that fought in the High Court to expose the widest miscarriage of justice in UK history.

Subpostmasters were reassured by Post Office executives that the Horizon replacement project was satisfactory the day before Computer Weekly reported news to the contrary.

Former Royal Mail boss messaged Vennells following the broadcasting of ITV’s dramatisation of the Post Office scandal, questioning what the former Post Office boss knew and removed her support of her.

A general counsel annoyed by independent investigators and comms director that bragged about his contacts were part of a Post Office clique with former CEO Paula Vennells

Second criminal investigation will look at potential crimes by the Post Office in its recovery of money from subpostmasters accused of theft and false accounting

Government minister outlines the real prospect that people will be jailed for their roles in the Post Office Horizon scandal.

Long running statutory public inquiry restarts with hugely increased interest following ITV’s dramatisation of the two decade long scandal

In 2003 subpostmaster Alan Bates had his contract terminated when he refused to comply with Post Office policy. A decade and a half later, against the odds, he took the Post Office to the High cour...

Every Post Office statement on the Horizon system, whether to journalists or the government, has been carefully crafted by lawyers.

Read about two years of shocking revelations from the Post Office Horizon scandal inquiry

George Freeman MP repeats Post Office claims that a report found no flaws in the Horizon IT system – but campaigners respond by calling for an inquiry

Subpostmasters will have to wait to find out if the government knew of the Post Office’s plan to derail group litigation order, by trying to push managing judge out.

MP asks government minister for figure on how much money the Post Office took from subpostmasters who were wrongly blamed for accounting shortfalls.

Henry Staunton had only been in post since 2022. But when he was sacked he says Kemi Badenoch told him: ‘Someone’s got to take the rap’

Post Office executives were forced to meet subpostmasters to discuss an unexplained error in their branch, they went on to mislead the branch managers over remote access.

Former Post Office CEO hands back her CBE after public backlash following darmatisation of her role in Post Office Horizon scandal

In 2003 subpostmaster Alan Bates had his contract terminated when he refused to comply with Post Office policy. A decade and a half later, against the odds, he took the Post Office to the High cour...

As Paula Vennells faces statutory public inquiry into Horizon scandal, Computer Weekly compiles some of its must-read articles about the controversial former Post Office boss

The current rules around digital evidence are partly to blame for the widest miscarriage of justice in UK history.

The Post Office established a scheme to compensate subpostmasters affected by tech faults, but it was just a 'charade,' says Public Inquiry KC.

Campaigning former subpostmaster believes the civil service has more to answer for than ministers in the Post Office Horizon scandal

A government minister investigating the controversial Horizon IT project in 2000 described the Post Office board of directors as ‘appalling, short-sighted and partisan’.

Former boss reacted to Computer Weekly expose by telling a colleague that his feeling was subpostmasters were blaming technology for their own theft

Leak reveals how Fujitsu advises staff to approach UK government customers during its self-imposed bidding pause, as well as details of a multimillion-pound project to protect its reputation.

The government should face legal deadline on paying Horizon scandal victims and unfair previous settlements should be reopened.

The Post Office has admitted that some subpostmasters are at risk of accounts not balancing due to an error it does not understand

Evidence in the questioning of 35-year Post Office veteran reveals the lengths the Post Office went to in hiding computer system vulnerabilities.

Reverend Richard Coles tells Computer Weekly how a recent ITV drama ‘moved and enraged’ a public that had missed the unfolding of the biggest miscarriage of justice in modern history, in front of t...

Barrister Simon Clarke was representing the Post Office when he discovered an expert witness had misled courts in subpostmaster trials.

Campaigning subpostmaster calls out government's use of "weaselly" statistics to hide its slow progress

Post Office investigators were only focused on getting money from subpostmasters blamed for accounting shortfalls, according to a 2013 report commissioned by Post Office’s legal boss

The government has chosen to introduce legislation to enable it to exonerate hundreds of subpostmasters as a group.

Phase four of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal statutory public inquiry revealed ‘a parade of liars, bullies, amnesiacs and arrogant individuals’ that made up the Post Office teams investigating ...

For those following the Post Office Horizon scandal public inquiry, confused about what makes a computer error systemic, IT expert James Christie explains.

Phase four of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal statutory public inquiry revealed ‘a parade of liars, bullies, amnesiacs and arrogant individuals’ that made up the Post Office teams investigating ...

Phase four of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal statutory public inquiry revealed ‘a parade of liars, bullies, amnesiacs and arrogant individuals’ that made up the Post Office teams investigating ...

Post Office CEO sought advice from husband on what words to use in reports to downplay known errors in software, inquiry told.

Alan Bates, who fought for decades to expose the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, says it would be inappropriate to accept an OBE when former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells still holds her CBE.

Select committee chair says Fujitsu should pay half of the costs to repair damage caused by Post Office scandal.

Concerns of an expert witness in subpostmaster trials were ignored by Fujitsu.

As another week in the post-drama Post Office scandal passes, Computer Weekly looks at some of the key moments.

Many of the 300,000 emails unearthed could be relevant to evidence from future and past witnesses in the Post Office scandal inquiry

The Post Office’s attempts to protect the Horizon system are well known today, in light of the findings of an ongoing statutory public inquiry and a recent TV drama, but Computer Weekly can reveal...

Read about two years of shocking revelations from the Post Office Horizon scandal inquiry

Post Office IT scandal inquiry hears how a lawyer was at the centre of the Post Office’s attempts to prevent problems with its IT system becoming public knowledge.

Parliamentary select committees have their eyes trained on Fujitsu’s response to the Post Office Horizon scandal with its pause on bidding for contracts under scrutiny.

A parliamentary select committee was told that the Post Office is unable to access information to accurately calculate compensation for some Horizon scandal victims.