Post Office victims' compensation battle 'worse than original injustice'

Post Office lawyers are continuing to dig their heels in and stop victims of the Horizon scandal getting the timely redress they need.

That was the claim from victims’ lawyer Simon Goldberg, who said the Post Office’s intractable and stubborn approach is running contrary to public statements from the organisation and from the government.

His comments came after it emerged that victims’ commissioner Baroness Newlove had written to the government saying that the situation with compensation was ‘worse than the original injustice’. Newlove’s letter, which has not been published but the contents of which have been verified, states: ‘Far from offering catharsis, the compensation process was seen to be as bad as or even worse an experience than the initial investigation, prosecution and injustice itself.’

The commissioner said the claim for compensation was more akin to fighting an insurance company than an arm of the state and that she had been shocked by a multitude of victims of the Horizon scandal saying how difficult the process had been.

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'Worse than the original injustice': Post Office compensation process slammed by Victims' Commissioner and lawyer | Law Gazette

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