All Post Office articles
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NewsEthics framework to 'empower' in-house community
Resource designed to support solicitors meet their regulatory and ethical responsibilities.
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NewsSociety backs code of conduct for private prosecutions
President says lawyers must be deterred from prosecuting in their organisation’s interest.
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NewsGovernment hiring lawyers for Post Office scandal response
Minister confirms government will take some responsibility for redress schemes away from Post Office.
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NewsSRA delivers update on Post Office scandal probe
Solicitors are also under investigation over their engagement with Sir Wyn Williams’ public inquiry. ‘We must get this right,’ says regulator.
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NewsPost Office prosecutions set to begin this summer, says SRA
Groundwork has been carried out while the Post Office Inquiry team prepares landmark report.
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NewsIn depth: MoJ to review computer evidence - but what is it?
The most widespread miscarriage of justice in British history demonstrated the fallibility of evidence produced by software. But the Ministry of Justice will not find it easy to redraw the boundaries.
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NewsJudges should block legal privilege abuses, say top legal academics
Working paper prompted by Post Office scandal argues that privilege could also be qualified to prevent corporations leaning on it to cover up wrongdoing.
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NewsGovernment rethinks ‘Computer must be right’ rule
Ministry of Justice opens call for evidence following wrongful convictions of sub-postmasters in the Post Office Horizon scandal.
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NewsPost Office: Lawyers making millions from faulty redress schemes in spotlight
Payments to sub-postmasters take so long that some die before they receive a penny, MPs report.
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NewsPost Office Inquiry: Vennells' lawyer says CEO relied on general counsel - as it happened
Yesterday featured closing submissions from the lawyers representing victims. Today is the turn of the lawyers for the Post Office, Paula Vennells and Gareth Jenkins.
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NewsPost Office live: PO lawyers enforced 'corporate psychopathy with ingenuity, ruthlessness'
After more than two years, the Post Office Inquiry hearings draw to a close with final statements from lawyers representing core participants.
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NewsFirm denies profiting from Post Office victims’ misery
HSF has received £51m for work on compensation scheme that is not working fast enough.
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NewsSRA tells in-house lawyers they must report wrongdoing
Post Office scandal fallout prompts new ethical guidance for the 34,500 in-house solicitors.
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NewsPost Office Inquiry costs climb past £50m
Lawyers for core participants charged more than £6m for the last financial year.
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NewsKemi Badenoch appears at the Post Office Inquiry
The Post Office Inquiry has gone on so long that Kemi Badenoch, a junior minister when it started, is now leader of the opposition.
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NewsJudges urged to call out litigators working to hide the truth
Professor Richard Moorhead says culture of ‘can we get away with it’ is being aided by lawyers.
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OpinionA musical that powerfully unravels the Post Office Scandal
A review of Make Good, which tells the stories of three people whose lives were turned upside down.
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NewsPost Office Inquiry: Commercial lawyers' 'cultural clash' delaying compensation
Senior civil servant Lorna Gratton tells the inquiry that external lawyers instructed by the Post Office had taken a ‘conventional legalistic approach’ to negotiations.
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OpinionAre solicitors blinded by an ‘ideology of zeal’?
Two leading academics specialising in professional ethics have raised the question.