A Fujitsu IT expert’s admission that bugs existed in the Post Office Horizon system in 2013 was a “bombshell moment”, according to a barrister who was acting for the Post Office at the time. Simon Clarke, a barrister who advised the Post Office on criminal prosecutions, also told the Post Office scandal public inquiry that…
Post Office lawyers misled a barrister acting for them in subpostmaster prosecution cases, the Post Office Horizon scandal public inquiry has heard. Simon Clarke, previously a barrister at Cartwright King, said he believes he was misled by the Post Office’s lawyers during his work with the organisation. Discussing the case of Seema Misra, who was…
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The topic of artificial intelligence (AI) is dominant both in and outside of the tech sector at the moment, and a huge part of the Knowledge24 agenda focused on generative AI (GenAI), with many of the platform and product announcements made during the event featuring the technology, including the further embedding of GenAI into the…
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The Post Office general counsel failed to give the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) evidence that would have identified the biggest miscarriage of justice years earlier. In a 2014 response to a CCRC request for an update on a Post Office review of its own prosecution strategy and processes, Chris Aujard, interim general council at…
Labelled a “bluffer” and an agitator, a former subpostmaster was proved right when he alerted Post Office boss Paula Vennells to a major software bug and warned that inaction would eventually see her face a judicial review. The Post Office underestimated an ultimatum sent by Tim McCormack, who was described as a “bluffer” by a…
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After more than 20 years, what is now referred to as the Post Office Horizon scandal has become headline news. Computer Weekly has played an important part in exposing what has been described as the widest miscarriage of justice in UK history. In 1999, the Post Office’s single shareholder, the UK government, began automating accounting…
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Post Office internal lawyer Rodric Williams turned his attention to all manner of Post Office challenges while failing to meet the code of conduct of his chosen profession, the public inquiry into the Post Office scandal has heard. During the latest inquiry hearings, a barrister representing subpostmaster victims said Williams was at the centre of…
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Fujitsu is cutting about 100 jobs in the UK as the fallout from its central role in the Post Office scandal hits its sales pipeline. The IT supplier has put nearly 70 members of staff at risk of redundancy and about 30 are leaving. Sales, pre-sales and logistics jobs are affected. According to a source,…
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Paula Vennells has had her CBE formally removed by the King following public outrage at her role in the Post Office Horizon scandal. The former Post Office CEO said she would hand back her CBE last month after the airing of ITV’s drama about the scandal, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, but it has…
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More than 300 Fujitsu Services UK employees working for HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) are set to strike from 17 January 2024 in a protest over pay, potentially causing mass disruption to the IT systems underpinning the government agency’s self-assessment tax return process. All of the participating employees are members of the Public and Commercial…
