Cost of legal fees and advice
Dear Post Office Limited,Since 2000 can you say how much money Post Office has spent on legal fees and advice?Can you further say how much of this was spent on Horizon Prosecutions,CIT,JFSA issues,recusals and matters relating to the prosecution of SPM's?If you only hold data from 2012 can that be supplied although it seems unlikely that you can say how many people you prosecuted since 2000 but not know the sums involved
Yours faithfully,
john o'sullivan
Our ref: FOI2022/00824
Dear John O'Sullivan,
Thank you for your request for information which was received on 18th
December. Your request is being considered under the terms of the Freedom
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Dear John O'Sullivan,
Please find the attached response relating to your Freedom of Information
request.
Regards,
Information Rights Team
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Dear [email address],Thank you for a reply.Can we just limit the cots to actions involving the prosecution and defending the prosecutions of SPM.Given the Regulatory,Judicial and Journalistic interest in these events it is remarkable that no Senior Post Office Legal or Accounting Director felt that an ongoing accurate figure of legal costs was desireable or even necessary.Did BEIS never reqiure any figures for legal costs?
Yours sincerely,
john o'sullivan
Our ref: FOI2023/00033
Dear Mr O'Sullivan,
Thank you for your request for information which was received on 20th
January. Your request is being considered under the terms of the Freedom
of Information Act 2000.
The Act requires that a response must be given promptly, and in any event
within 20 working days. We will therefore reply at the latest by 17th
February.
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.
Regards,
Information Rights Team
Finsbury Dials
20 Finsbury Street
London
EC2Y 9AQ
Dear Mr O'Sullivan,
Please find the attached response relating to your Freedom of Information
request.
Regards,
Information Rights Team
Finsbury Dials
20 Finsbury Street
London
EC2Y 9AQ
Dear [email address],Thank you for a reply.Are you saying Post Office Ltd have no figure that reflects the total legal spend(or rough approximation) on matters Horizon and that Government have never asked for such a figure?
Yours sincerely,
john o'sullivan
Dear Mr O'Sullivan,
Thank you for your email.
We have nothing further to add to our response letter of 16 February. As ever, if you have a new request for recorded information, it would be helpful if you sent it as a new request from the What Do They Know website.
Kind regards
Information Rights Team
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