Mar 28, 2024
Secret papers show Post Office knew case was false
A draft report uncovered by the BBC shows the Post Office spent £100m fighting sub-postmasters in court despite knowing its defence was untrue. The landmark Bates v Post Office High Court case - portrayed in a recent ITV drama - ran from 2018 to 2019 and was brought by 555 sub-postmasters. Tim Parker, the Post Office's chairman at the time of the draft report, also told the BBC via his legal representative that Post Office lawyers liaised with Deloitte about Project Bramble and were responsible for handling, distributing and disclosing it. Second Sight, the company he worked for, was brought in by the Post Office in 2012 to look into the Post Office's IT and business processes but it was later sacked after the Post Office became worried about the conclusions it was drawing. Jane MacLeod, the Post Office's general counsel at the time of the case, said she supported the ongoing public inquiry into the Post Office scandal and was assisting it.
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