Post Office inquiry newest: Apology over Horizon disclosure delays – watch stay

The Post Office has apologised over disclosure delays which has resulted within the postponement of hearings within the public inquiry into the Horizon scandal.

In his opening remarks to the inquiry, Chris Jackson, a accomplice at regulation agency Burges Salmon LLP, stated it was a Post Office precedence to enhance the discharge of paperwork.

The Post Office has beforehand been criticised for not disclosing sure paperwork in authorized proceedings in opposition to sub-postmasters and to the inquiry.

Gareth Jenkins, the architect of the Horizon IT system, had been attributable to give proof to the general public inquiry twice. But in every event it was postponed together with as just lately as November 2023, when the Post Office disclosed 3,045 paperwork on the night earlier than he was attributable to give proof.

In his witness assertion, Mr Jackson stated: “The Post Office has asked me to convey its apologies for the current situation and to assure the inquiry and other core participants that it is a post office priority to get to a position where hearings (and planning and preparation for hearings) can take place from a stable basis.”

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