
Hundreds of Post Office workers ‘vindicated’ by High Court ruling over faulty IT system that left them bankrupt and in prison
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Hundreds of former Post Office workers who claimed a faulty IT system led to some of them being prosecuted and others going bankrupt due to cash shortfalls have been "vindicated" after a High Court ruling in their favour. His ruling that there was a “material risk” that shortfalls in Post Office branch accounts were caused by Horizon is a major step in workers’ attempts to have convictions for fraud and theft overturned. But in a statement following Monday’s hearing, its chairman Tim Parker said: “In reaching last week’s settlement with the claimants, we accepted our past shortcomings and I, both personally and on behalf of the Post Office, sincerely apologised to those affected when we got things wrong. “We have given a commitment to learning lessons from these events, and today’s judgment underlines the need to do so.” Mr Parker insisted the current Horizon system was “robust relative to comparable systems” and said the Post Office was implementing changes to “the ways in which we support our postmasters”.
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Post Office cuts 100 jobs to fund subpostmaster pay after Horizon scandal
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Post Office to hike bank fees that let people take out cash at branches to help claw back money for Horizon scandal payouts
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Government should face financial penalties if its does not speed up Post Office compensation, MPs warn
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Victims of Post Office Capture software promised ‘redress and justice’
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Victims of second Post Office software Capture promised ‘redress and justice’
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A year after the Horizon Post Office scandal was exposed, victims must get justice
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Post Office announce more than 100 branches and around 1,000 jobs at risk in major shake-up
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Dozens of Post Office branches across the UK at risk of closing down and hundreds of jobs could be slashed amid 'major shake up'
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Post Office corporate culture at root of Horizon scandal – business secretary
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Government ‘bureaucracy’ slowed payouts for sub-postmasters, Badenoch tells inquiry
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Sub-postmaster wrongfully jailed in Horizon IT scandal rejects £600k compensation
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Former Post Office bosses not ‘held to account’ over Horizon, chief suggests
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Former Post Office bosses ‘not held to account’ over Horizon IT scandal, CEO Nick Read suggests
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Post Office boss told ‘not to dig into the past’ by top lawyer, Horizon IT inquiry hears
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Post Office boss told not to ‘dig into the past’ by top lawyer, inquiry hears
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Post Office sub-postmasters are still reporting unexplained problems with the flawed Horizon IT system, damning survey reveals
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Most subpostmasters say Horizon IT system still causing shortfalls
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Fewer than one in six subpostmasters have had quashed convictions confirmed
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Post Office betrays postmasters yet again: Fury as bungling Post Office publishes names and addresses of more than 550 people wrongfully convicted in the Horizon scandal on its website in 'horrific' p
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Former Fujitsu boss denies any responsibility for Horizon IT system scandal which sent subpostmasters to prison
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Post Office boss Nick Read ‘obsessed with his pay’, claims former HR director
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Post Office staff had ‘bunker mentality’ towards press, lawyer tells inquiry
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Post Office chief executive ‘exonerated of misconduct claims’
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UK's Post Office scandal: Indian-origin woman rejects ex-boss's apology
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Mediation chairman told Paula Vennells subpostmaster cases ‘didn’t make sense’
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Post Office hit by string of formal complaints amid toxic culture claims
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Law to exonerate wronged subpostmasters moves a step closer
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Bill to quash hundreds of wrongful convictions over a Post Office scandal goes before UK Parliament
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Law to exonerate subpostmasters who have had their lives torn apart introduced by government
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Post office should be sold for £1, wronged postmaster Alan Bates tells MPs
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Post Office victims wronged in Horizon scandal to have names cleared by new law
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David Cameron government ‘knew secret Post Office probe that could have cleared innocent postmasters was ditched’
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Stop the blame games and put the Post Office scandal victims first
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Ex-Post Office chair says government told him to delay compensation for postmasters until election
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Kemi Badenoch hits out at former Post Office chairman in Horizon row
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No deadline for full compensation for Post Office victims, says Kemi Badenoch
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Post Office chairman ousted amid government frustration over Horizon scandal
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Cameron coalition government ‘knew Post Office chiefs covered up computer scandal’
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Post Office Scandal: MPs grill ‘sorry’ Fujitsu boss as Alan Bates slams compensation delays
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Provider of faulty computer system apologizes to hundreds affected by UK Post Office scandal
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Provider of faulty computer system apologizes to hundreds affected by UK Post Office scandal
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The Post Office could change accounts on the Horizon system remotely and without postmasters knowing from 2001, whistleblower claims
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Post Office boss blames ‘culture of denial’ for Horizon compensation delay
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Victims of British Post Office scandal may get justice at last
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The Post Office must lose the right to police itself
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Post Office investigator denies behaving like ‘Mafia gangster’ over Horizon scandal
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