‘Unfairness’ of the 2019 Group Litigation Settlement

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Dear Post Office Limited,

With regard to the Group Litigation Settlement of 2019, the Post Office’s Corporate website maintains that:

‘Whilst the settlement was jointly agreed in good faith as fair and appropriate in all the circumstances, subsequent media reports revealed that around £46 million of the £57.75 global payment was directed to the claimants’ funders and legal advisors. We continually urged the Government to address this unfairness’.

https://corporate.postoffice.co.uk/en/hi...

Please can you disclose all correspondence between the Post Office and UKGI/BEIS which supports the claim that the Post Office continuously urged the Government to address this unfairness.

Yours sincerely,
Eleanor Shaikh

information.rights@postoffice.co.uk, Post Office Limited

Our ref: FOI2023/00085

Dear Ms Shaikh,

Thank you for your request for information which was received on 19th
February. 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 20th
March.

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

Regards,

Information Rights Team

Finsbury Dials
20 Finsbury Street
London
EC2Y 9AQ

information.rights@postoffice.co.uk, Post Office Limited

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Dear Ms Shaikh,

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 your response to FOI 2023/00086.

One of the documents disclosed is an email from the Post Office to UKGI of 11.04.22 which lists two documents attached:

20220217 BEIS SC Interim Report on POL Compensation and;
220331 Post Office position on Select Committee Responses v6 docx.

I would be most grateful if you would disclose these documents.

Yours sincerely,
Eleanor Shaikh

information.rights@postoffice.co.uk, Post Office Limited

Our ref: FOI2023/00150

Dear Eleanor Shaikh,

Thank you for your request for information which was received on 21st
March. 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 20th
April.

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

Regards,

Information Rights Team

Finsbury Dials
20 Finsbury Street
London
EC2Y 9AQ

information.rights@postoffice.co.uk, Post Office Limited

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Dear Eleanor Shaikh,

Please find the attached response and disclosable document relating to
your Freedom of Information request.

With kind regards,

Information Rights Team

Finsbury Dials
20 Finsbury Street
London
EC2Y 9AQ