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The biggest miscarriage of justice in UK history is "even wider than first thought", a solicitor in Northern Ireland has said. Hundreds of postmasters and subpostmasters across the UK, including in Northern Ireland, were wrongly accused of theft based on data provided by the faulty Horizon accountin

Northern Ireland victims of the Post Office scandal have begun to receive redress payments, according to a lawyer. Belfast-based Madden & Finucane Solicitors said an interim payment of £200,000 had been paid to a client whose 2003 conviction was quashed by the Post Office (Horizon Sys

Northern Ireland's Department of Justice has issued letters to former sub-postmasters whose convictions have been quashed through legislation. Madden & Finucane Solicitors said four of its clients have now received letters confirming their convictions have been quashed under the Post Office (Hor

Northern Ireland's Court of Appeal has quashed the convictions of a former sub-postmaster linked to the Post Office Horizon scandal. Hundreds of subpostmasters were convicted of fraud and false accounting offences based on unreliable evidence from the Post Office's faulty Horizon accounting system i

The Post Office has paid lawyers a quarter of a billion pounds in legal fees over the Horizon scandal, close to the amount given to victims. The state body paid out £256.9 million to 15 law firms and two barristers’ chambers between September 2014 and March 2024, according a freedom of i

Post Office operators in Northern Ireland have been urged by the inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal to share their experiences in a survey by this time next week. Up to 16,000 people from across the UK — including all current sub-postmasters and Horizon Shortfall scheme applicants — hav

There are more than 20 investigations underway into English solicitors who worked for the Post Office in cases linked to the Horizon scandal, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has said. The SRA is investigating the conduct of Post Office or Royal Mail Group lawyers during the period in which

Judges failed subpostmasters convicted in the Horizon scandal, according to a former director of public prosecutions of England and Wales. Sir David Calvert-Smith, 79, who reviewed scores of appeals for the Post Office, said that in at least 12 convictions, judges ought to have “probed”

Legislation quashing the wrongful convictions of postmasters and subpostmasters in Northern Ireland has come into force. The Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Act 2024 received royal assent on Friday, meaning all convictions in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have now been overturned providi

UK legislation to automatically quash convictions linked to the Post Office Horizon scandal will be extended to Northern Ireland, the UK government has confirmed. A total of 26 convictions in Northern Ireland will now be quashed through the Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill, which is expect

A lawyer representing Northern Ireland victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal has said his clients are "afraid of getting left behind" as legislation moves forward in England and Wales. Michael Madden, solicitor at Madden & Finucane Solicitors, has written to justice minister Naomi Long to "

Northern Ireland victims should be included in new UK legislation on the Post Office scandal, a lawyer representing dozens of subpostmasters has said. The UK government plans to legislate to clear convictions in England and Wales linked to the Horizon IT scandal, said to be the biggest miscarriage o

The public inquiry into the UK's largest ever miscarriage of justice is examining case studies from Northern Ireland. The Post Office Horizon IT inquiry heard evidence on Friday from Suzanne Winter, a former Post Office investigator involved in the criminal investigation of Belfast subpostmaster Ala

More potential victims of the Post Office scandal have come forward in Northern Ireland following the airing of a high-profile TV drama on the subject. Michael Madden, director at Belfast firm Madden & Finucane Solicitors, already represents 20 subpostmasters in Northern Ireland and told the&nbs

A public inquiry into the UK's Horizon IT scandal has amassed enough evidence for police to open a criminal investigation into senior staff at the Post Office, lawyers for the wrongfully convicted postmasters have said. More than 700 sub-postmasters in the UK were falsely prosecuted between 2000 and