I've been following this for years and am very happy the sub-postmasters are getting huge public support. As some of you know, my mother runs Strand on the Green Post Office and I've worked there many times over the last few decades.Has Post Office (PO) HQ cleaned up its act? No. What has not gone widely reported in the media are the following that have occurred in the last year alone:- serious tax problems with the way PO was compensating the victims of the Horizon scandal- falsely asserting that its compensation settlement offers were confidential which handcuffed impacted sub-postmasters- failure to disclose a document to the public inquiry about PO's use of racial identification codes. In the words of the Chair "I am dissatisfied by the approach that has been taken by the Post Office; in my view, their approach demonstrates a lack of clear thinking about the disclosure obligations owed to the Inquiry with which the Post Office must comply and the means by which their obligations can be fulfilled"- awarding its executives bonuses for complying with the Inquiry into itself- misleading Parliament in its annual accounts, including falsely claiming the Chair of the Inquiry had approved PO's compliance with the statutory inquiry- very serious disclosure failings on the part of PO in complying with the Inquiry. In the words of Jason Beer KC, counsel to the Inquiry, in July 2023, it was "grossly unsatisfactory to be told at 10.32pm on the night before an important witness gives evidence that there are 4,767 documents that are at least potentially relevant to a witness who is being called 11 hours and 28 minutes later"- yet more serious disclosure failings in November 2023 where 363,000 documents were not disclosed to the Inquiry the previous year and these may not have been disclosed to sub-postmasters in litigation years ago
Milan Joshi ● 500d