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Japanese firm has a reckoning to face Gareth Corfield Fri 23 Apr 2021 // 14:15 UTC Share Copy Post Office employees were wrongly prosecuted by the company as a direct result of it covering up software bugs in its Horizon IT system, the Court of Appeal has said as it quashed 39 convictions this morning. Those 39 convictions were obtained by the Post Office's in-house lawyers who ignored their own barristers' advice that the institution's behaviour was trampling over established prosecutorial codes intended to promote fairness and honesty. Lord Justice Holroyde said that...

By Press Association 2021 Coronavirus – Mon Apr 12, 2021 Dozens of former subpostmasters who were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting due to the Post Office’s defective Horizon accounting system finally had their names cleared by the Court of Appeal on Friday. Here the PA news agency looks at the decades-long scandal and what happens next. – Who are the subpostmasters? Subpostmasters run Post Office branches, which are often situated inside a shop or other business, which the subpostmasters also run. Hundreds of subpo...

By Press Association 2021 Coronavirus – Mon Apr 12, 2021 Dozens of former subpostmasters who were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting due to the Post Office’s defective Horizon accounting system finally had their names cleared by the Court of Appeal on Friday. Here the PA news agency looks at the decades-long scandal and what happens next. – Who are the subpostmasters? Subpostmasters run Post Office branches, which are often situated inside a shop or other business, which the subpostmasters also run. Hundreds of subpo...

By Press Association 2021 Coronavirus – Mon Apr 12, 2021 Dozens of former subpostmasters who were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting due to the Post Office’s defective Horizon accounting system finally had their names cleared by the Court of Appeal on Friday. Here the PA news agency looks at the decades-long scandal and what happens next. – Who are the subpostmasters? Subpostmasters run Post Office branches, which are often situated inside a shop or other business, which the subpostmasters also run. Hundreds of subpo...

As the UK government prepares to roll out its new freeports policy to “turbo-charge” post-Brexit trade, a report released today by the International Trade Committee questions the real impact of the special trade zones on British exports. The Conservative government made a commitment to establishing freeports – areas that are inside the geographic boundary of a country, but are legally considered outside the country for customs purposes – in its 2019 election manifesto, as part of wider plans for post-Brexit Britain. During his budget speech last month, Rishi Sunak, chancellor of the e...