Neil Hudgell welcomes MPs’ call to simplify and speed up Post Office Horizon compensation schemes
‘The overarching goal in 2025 must be full, fair and final compensation.’
It’s a year since the drama ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’ was on TV and yet 72% of the budget set aside for victims’ compensation settlements has still not been paid.
In a report published today MPs say the application process is ‘a second trial’ due to over-complicated processes and delays.
Solicitor Neil Hudgell, who represents hundreds of subpostmasters, welcomes recommendations to remove unnecessary obstacles to justice.
Claims Against GOSH and Yaser Jabbar Orthopaedic Surgeon
Hudgell Solicitors is representing a large number of families relating to their child treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital by surgeon Dr Yaser Jabbar. The hospital is reviewing 721 cases for potential harm caused to children.
Our team is led by solicitors Caroline Murgatroyd and Elizabeth Maliakal, after reviews outlined unacceptable assessments, examinations, clinical decision-making, and treatments of patients which brought no benefit, and were found to have caused harm.
Post Office Horizon IT Public Inquiry: Closing Statements
Tim Moloney KC – instructed by Hudgell Solicitors – told the Post Office Inquiry: “What happened to the sub-postmasters can never be allowed to happen to others again. It is not acceptable for decent, hard-working people of good character to be collateral damage in the pursuit of commercial imperatives.”
Read more on the closing statement on behalf of sub-postmasters
Response from Nottingham families and solicitor Neil Hudgell to review of homicide law and sentencing
The families of the victims of the 2024 Nottingham attacks have welcomed a move to review homicide law and the sentencing framework – including how ‘diminished responsibility’ is classified. They have also repeated their call, along with solicitor Neil Hudgell, for a judge-led statutory inquiry.
Mr Hudgell said: “There are so many failings in this case, that to properly piece it all together and ensure accountability and change only a properly formulated Public Inquiry will do.”
Full statement from the families of Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates.
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