News and Engagement

Instances where our work appears in the wider press.

August 2024

• Gabriel Kennedy, The Lawyer, ‘Revealed: the quarter-billion-pound payday for Post Office scandal lawyers‘

April 2024

• Rafe Uddin, Financial Times, ‘Post Office scandal exposes ethical dilemmas of general counsel’

March 2024

• Angelica Dino, Lexpert, ‘New guidance for in-house solicitors on reporting wrongdoing announced in the UK‘
• Paul Rogerson, Law Gazette, ‘Inside Information‘
• Nalini Sivathasan and Lorna Acquah, BBC News, ‘“Damaging” testimony withheld from pregnant postmistress trial‘
• Richard Moorhead, The Times, ‘Postmasters punished by an adversarial legal culture‘
• Tony Morris KC, Hearsay – Journal of the Bar Association of Queensland, ‘Lessons from the UK’s Post Office scandal‘
• Nick Hilborne, Legal Futures, ‘Post Office lesson of “misalignment” between justice and desire to win‘
• John Hyde, Law Society Gazette, ‘Clever’ tactics by Post Office lawyers fuelled scandal, academics report’
• Emma Simpson & Tom Espiner & Esyllt Carr, BBC News, ‘Post Office scandal victims’ children seek compensation‘
• Richard Moorhead gave a seminar to the University of Northumbria’s Law and Technology Research Group on ‘Technology and Ethics: Researching the Post Office Scandal Socio-Legally’
• Victoria Basham, Global Legal Post, ‘“You must not turn a blind eye to wrongdoing” – SRA consults on new guidance for in-house lawyers’
• John Hyde, Law Society Gazette, ‘Apathy and ignorance around legal ethics ‘root causes’ of misconduct’
• Neil Rose, Legal Futures, ‘Post Office victim and SRA chief urge lawyers to call out colleagues‘

February 2024

• John Malpas, Global Legal Post, ‘UK legal regulators urged to prioritise policing of ethics in response to Post Office scandal’
• Neil Rose, Legal Futures, ‘NDA and SLAPP abuse continuing despite regulatory warnings‘
• Anjli Raval and Rafe Uddin, Financial Times, ‘Post Office scandal sounds warning on diversity backlash‘
• Nation World News ‘After four suicides and a television series, the United Kingdom tries to deal with its “greatest failure of justice”‘

January 2024

• Richard Moorhead on the panel of the ‘The Bar Association for Commerce, Finance and Industry’ Ethics Webinar on the subject of ethical aspects of the Post Office IT scandal and the subsequent consequences for members of the Bar employed in-house.
• Maria Ward-Brennan, City AM, ‘Post Office told the government it would oppose appeals of Horizon scandal victims‘
• Zelda Perkins, Financial Times, ‘The Post Office scandal shines an unforgiving light on NDA abuse‘
• Richard Moorhead appears on ‘The Lawyer’ Podcast.
• Richard Moorhead explains the Post Office scandal on the ‘Mornings with Simi’ programme
• Michael O’Dwyer and Peter Foster, Financial Times, ‘The City grandees who let the Post Office fight to the bitter end‘
• ‘What are Fujitsu’s roles and responsibilities?‘ Richard Moorhead speaks to the Asahi Shimbun
• ‘Post Office scandal: why thousands of victims are yet to see justice‘ Richard Moorhead, Karen Nokes and Sally Day in The Conversation
• Catherine Baksi, The Times, ‘Fallout over Post Office legal advice‘
• ‘Fujitsu won contracts on Sunak’s watch despite Post Office scandal‘ Richard Moorhead, as a member of the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board, is quoted in the Financial Times
• ‘Strip Post Office of prosecution powers over Horizon scandal – Starmer‘ Richard Moorhead predicts people will be charged over the scandal
• Where were the lawyers? Richard Moorhead has questions for the lawyers involved in the Post Office scandal
• Richard Moorhead has been invited to deliver the 2024 Hamlyn Lectures
• Can ITV make the Post Office a story for 2024?

December 2023

• Our work on false confessions feeds into the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board letter to the Lord Chancellor and their advice and work more generally. The letter was reported widely on the BBC  and featured on 15 December 2023’s Today Progamme
• Richard Moorhead gives an invited talk on ‘Lawyers and Legality Illusions’ at the launch of Leeds University’s Legal Professional Research Group
• Nick Wallis for The Times, ‘Grit your teeth and keep prosecuting’: lawyers behind Post Office scandal.

November 2023

• Stephen Mason in Computer Weekly, ‘The cause of the Post Office Horizon Scandal? The Law Commission? Judges? Lawyers?’

September 2023

• Rozenberg Blog, How far should a lawyer go?
• A Womble Bond Dickinson partner is set to be grilled for his role in the prosecution of a sub-postmaster whose life was ruined by false allegations of theft. – RollonFriday
• Post Office scandal victims suffering from significant PTSD and depression, American Association of the Academy of Sciences,
• Socialcare.today, 12th September 2023, Solicitors Journal

August 2023

• The Post Office scandal is possibly the largest miscarriage of justice in UK history – Richard Moorhead and Karen Nokes in The Conversation

July 2023

• Crass does not come close…  Nick Wallis interview
• Rozenberg Blog (Prison warning for PO Bosses)
• Double Jeopardy Podcast Richard Moorhead with Tim Owen and Ken Macdonald KCs discusses Post Office case
• John Hyde, Law Society Gazette, ‘Lawyers in the Crosshairs and Post Office Inquiry’
• Karl Flinders, Computer Weekly, Post Office inquiry must examine rule on IT evidence if miscarriages of justice are to be avoided

June 2023

• Richard Moorhead, ‘Post Office scandal enquiry phase 4: Here come the lawyers …’ in Computer Weekly
• ‘Uncertain Materials’ in FT Alphaville’s ‘further reading’ …
• Karl Flinders, Post Office will not oppose potential Horizon conviction appellants
• Neil Rose, LegalFutures, Ex-judges “need guidance or regulation” on post-retirement work

The work of the research team has appeared in numerous publications, including The Times, The Financial Times, Computer Weekly, The BBC, amongst others.