Starting on New Year’s Day, a new four-part ITV drama, ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’, is set to tell the incredible story of how 736 former sub-postmasters were wrongfully convicted – some sent to prison – for crimes they hadn’t committed. The Post Office used evidence from its Horizon accounting system to prosecute over […]
There should be law changes to stop issues “blocking full and fair compensation” for the victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal says the chairman of the Inquiry looking into the miscarriages of justice. Sir Wyn Williams said schemes set up to compensate sub-postmasters wrongly accused of crimes was a “patchwork quilt with some […]
Serial offenders could continue being missed by the Metropolitan Police due to the force’s failure to carry out the ‘most basic research’ when investigating sudden deaths – often ‘relying on luck’ to identify links between cases, says a new report. The stark warning follows an inspection of the force by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary […]
The Post Office Inquiry today heard a further full day of evidence on compensation. Chair Sir Wyn Williams deferred his written ruling on a wide range of issues addressing delays and inadequacies in the set-up and structure of the various compensation schemes. The hearing was held as cases of wrongful convictions continued to be overturned […]
Hudgell Solicitors represents the families of Sorrell Leczkowski, 14, and Philip Tron, 32, who were killed, and also more than 150 injured survivors of the 2017 Manchester Arena Bombing. Following today’s publication of the second volume of findings at the Manchester Arena Inquiry, by Chairman Sir John Saunders, Solicitor Neil Hudgell, of Hudgell Solicitors, said: “This […]
The firearms officer who fired the lethal shots which killed 31-year-old Lewis Skelton, of Hull, in November 2016, has been granted permission for a Judicial Review of an inquest held last year, at which a Jury concluded that Mr Skelton had been unlawfully killed. The challenge will be heard by the Divisional Court in Leeds […]
Five more longstanding convictions relating to the Post Office Horizon scandal were today overturned at the Court of Appeal – including a case which lawyers say clearly demonstrates how ‘mounting evidence’ that prosecutions were unsafe was ignored. Today’s hearing takes the number of people to have their convictions quashed to 80, with the Post Office […]
Whilst the parties have been working hard to try and resolve the claims made by former Sub-postmasters for compensation arising out of the overturning of their convictions, one area which has proved challenging is non-pecuniary damages. These are damages which are not actual financial losses but reflect the impact on the former Sub-postmasters lives, such […]
The IOPC (Independent Office for Police Conduct) has today confirmed it will re-open its investigation into the way the Metropolitan Police investigated the deaths of the four men killed by serial killer Stephen Port. In a letter sent to the families’ solicitor Neil Hudgell of Hudgell Solicitors this morning, the IOPC said a new investigation […]
Two more former sub-postmasters today had longstanding convictions quashed as cases continue to be brought before the courts in the Post Office Horizon Scandal. It means a total of 75 people have now had their names cleared – and with more cases currently sat with the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) and filed with the […]
The local business community is being asked to come together to help Hudgell Solicitors celebrate 25 years of success – and raise vital funds for those who suffer serious spinal injuries – at a charity Golf Day later this year. Marking a quarter of a century since established in 1997, Hudgells are staging a number […]
The lawyer leading compensation negotiations with the Post Office on behalf of many former sub-postmasters wrongfully convicted of crimes in the Horizon Scandal says they remain ‘poles apart’ on agreeing damages. Neil Hudgell, of Hudgell Solicitors, has spoken out as a year has now passed since the landmark day at the Court of Appeal in […]