Nick Wallis - The Great Post Office Scandal
The Great Post Office Scandal came to many people's consciousness with the ITV drama series Mr Bates vs The Post Office. Nick is one of the leading experts on the Post Office scandal and has been reporting on the story for many years. HIs book is the definitive account of the scandal and 'an extraordinary journalistic expose of a huge miscarriage of justice'.
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| Date | Wednesday 6th November 2024 | |
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| Time | 7:30 PM | |
| Doors Open | 7:00 PM | |
| Venue | High Street Baptist Church | |
It tells of how thousands of subpostmasters were accused of theft and false accounting on the back of evidence from Horizon, the flawed computer system designed by Fujitsu, and how a group of them, led by Alan Bates, took their fight to the High Court. Their eventual victory in court vindicated their claims about the defects of the software and exposed the heavy handed attempts by the Post Office to suppress them. The book also recounts how successive senior managers, business leaders, lawyers, civil servants and Government ministers, at best failed to expose the injustice or, even worse, sought to cover it up, resulting in one of the largest miscarriages of justice in UK history.
The Great Post Office Scandal reveals the full scale of what happened and how so many of our trusted institutions allowed the saga to go on for nearly a quarter of a century, shattering the lives of thousands of innocent people.
About Nick Wallis
Nick Wallis is an award-winning freelance journalist and broadcaster. He has worked with the BBC, Private Eye and ITN. His Radio 4 series on the Post Office scandal has been nominated for national awards. He has also acted a Series Consultant for the ITV drama, Mr Bates vs The Post Office.