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Mr Bates Vs The Post Office
''Mr Bates vs The Post Office'' is a four-part British television drama series for ITV, written by Gwyneth Hughes, directed by James Strong and starring an ensemble cast led by Toby Jones. The series is a dramatisation of the British Post Office scandal, a miscarriage of justice in which hundreds of subpostmasters were wrongly prosecuted privately and publicly for theft, false accounting or fraud due to a faulty computer system called Horizon. It was broadcast on four consecutive days from 1 January 2024. The series takes its name from the court case instigated by the former subpostmaster Alan Bates and others. Synopsis A faulty IT system called Horizon creates apparent cash shortfalls that cause Post Office Limited to pursue prosecutions for fraud, theft and false accounting against a number of subpostmasters across the UK. In 2009, a group of these, led by Alan Bates forms the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance. The prosecutions and convictions are later ruled a miscarri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwyneth Hughes
Gwyneth Hughes is a British documentary director and screenwriter who works mainly in television. Early life She is a former newspaper journalist from the north of England. Career Her credits include the crime drama '' Five Days'', ''Cherished'', a film about the wrongful conviction of Angela Cannings, an adaptation of Charles Dickens's unfinished work '' The Mystery of Edwin Drood'', and '' The Girl'', which explores an alleged obsession Alfred Hitchcock had with the actress Tippi Hedren. Her work on ''Five Days'' earned her a nomination at the 2008 Golden Globe Awards. In 2013 she wrote ''Remember Me'', which debuted on the BBC in November 2014. In 2018, she executive-produced and adapted William Makepeace Thackeray's novel '' Vanity Fair'' into a 7-part television mini-series for ITV and Amazon Studios. She adapted the Henry Fielding Tom Jones novel for the Tom Jones (miniseries) to be broadcast on PBS The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fraud
In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law (e.g., a fraud victim may sue the fraud perpetrator to avoid the fraud or recover monetary compensation) or criminal law (e.g., a fraud perpetrator may be prosecuted and imprisoned by governmental authorities), or it may cause no loss of money, property, or legal right but still be an element of another civil or criminal wrong. The purpose of fraud may be monetary gain or other benefits, for example by obtaining a passport, travel document, or driver's license, or mortgage fraud, where the perpetrator may attempt to qualify for a mortgage by way of false statements. Internal fraud, also known as "insider fraud", is fraud committed or attempted by someone within an organisation such as an employee. A hoax is a distinct concept that involves deliberate deception without the intention of gain or of materially damaging or depriving a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaun Dooley
Shaun Dooley (born 29 March 1974) is an English actor, narrator and voice-over artist. Early life Dooley was born in Barnsley in Yorkshire. He studied at the Arden School of Theatre in Manchester between 1992 and 1995. Career Dooley's first acting role was as Shaun in ''Groove on a Stanley Knife'' in 1997. He later played Ritchie Fitzgerald in ''Coronation Street'' from 1997 until 1998. He appeared occasionally in '' EastEnders'' as Tom Stuart between 2001 and 2004 until he was replaced during his filming of ''The Street''. He had a role in ''P.O.W.''. Dooley played Peter Harper in BBC drama series ''The Street''. He also featured in the 2007 television docudrama '' Diana: Last Days of a Princess''. Dooley portrayed Kieran in the British horror film ''Salvage''. He portrayed police inspector Dick Alderman in all three parts of the '' Red Riding'' trilogy and in 2017 appeared as Reverend Michaelmas Winter in the Sky 1 drama '' Jamestown''. In 2019, Shaun and his wife Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare Calbraith
Clare Michelle Calbraith (born 1 January 1974) is an English actress, born in Winsford, Cheshire, and raised in Liverpool and Cheshire, whose appearances include roles in the ITV period drama series '' Home Fires'' and '' Downton Abbey'', together with the BBC2 drama ''The Shadow Line''. Biography Calbraith has appeared in many other television series including '' DCI Banks'', ''Silent Witness'', '' Casualty'', ''Holby City'', '' The Bill'', ''55 Degrees North'' and Dr Tricia Summerbee in ''Heartbeat''. She joined ''Coronation Street'' in 2005 for a short time to play Robyn, girlfriend of Martin Platt. In 2007, she guest-starred in the ''Doctor Who'' audio dramas '' Urban Myths'' and '' Son of the Dragon''. In 2008 she guest-starred in the '' Sapphire and Steel'' audio drama '' Second Sight'' and ''Doctors''. In 2011, she played Laura Gabriel in the BBC TV series, ''The Shadow Line''. From 2011 to 2013 she played Shep in the ITV series ''Vera Vera may refer to: Names *Ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amit Shah (actor)
Amit Kaushik Shah (born 1981) is a British actor. Early life Amit Shah was born in Enfield, England. Shah's parents were originally from Kenya, and his grandparents from Gujarat, India. His father is an accountant, and his mother is a health-food shop manager. Shah was cast as the lead in a school play at the age of 16. He read drama at Staffordshire University and then went on to train at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in West London. In 2003 he was given permission by the principal to graduate early so that he could begin rehearsals for ''Bombay Dreams'', a West-End musical produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Acting career In 2006, Shah was offered a part in ''The Royal Hunt of the Sun'' at the National Theatre; the same part that Derek Jacobi played in the original production in 1964. He stayed on at the National Theatre to perform three plays, including ''The Alchemist'' directed by Nicholas Hytner, for which he was nominated for an Ian Charleson Award. He al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Nuttall
Amy Abigail Nuttall (born 7 June 1982) is an English actress and singer known for playing Chloe Atkinson in the ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale'' from 2000 until 2005, and housemaid Ethel Parks in ITV period drama ''Downton Abbey''. Early life Nuttall was born in Blackburn, Lancashire. She was educated at Bury Grammar School for Girls and trained at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. She performed with the National Youth Music Theatre, notably playing the lead role of Princess Ismene in ''Aurelius'' at the Tyne Opera House, Newcastle and the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh in August 1997. Career Nuttall is credited as the youngest actress to ever understudy and play the lead role of Christine in '' The Phantom of the Opera'' (at age 17) (National tour), has sung at the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall and Old Trafford and won an edition of ''Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes'' as Sarah Brightman. Shortly before leaving ''Emmerdale'', Nuttall appeared in ''Notes from New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Mellor
William Mellor (born 3 April 1976) is an English actor, singer and model. He is known for his roles as Jambo Bolton in ''Hollyoaks'', Gaz Wilkinson in ''Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps'', Warren Stamp in EastEnders, DC Spike Tanner in ''No Offence'', Steve Connolly in ''Broadchurch'', Georgie in ''Barking!'' and Ollie Curry in ''White Van Man''. In 2021, he began appearing in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' as Harvey Gaskell. Career Mellor first came to the public's attention in 1990, when he played Ben Rowlingson in the children's programme ''Children's Ward''. In 1995, he joined the cast of the soap opera ''Hollyoaks'' and played James "Jambo" Bolton until 1998. He had a cameo as Jambo in a Christmas edition of ''Hollyoaks''. He released a cover of Leo Sayer's "When I Need You", which reached number 5 in the UK Singles Chart, as well as a follow-up single called "No Matter What I Do", which reached number 23. He also made an appearance in the music vid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Vennells
Paula Anne Vennells, (born 1959), is a British businesswoman and Anglican priest. She was chief executive officer of Post Office Limited from 2012 to 2019. Under her leadership, the Post Office prosecuted hundreds of subpostmasters for fraud, despite knowing that the relevant financial discrepancies actually arose from computer errors for which the Post Office was responsible. According to Channel 4 and the BBC, this matter is the biggest miscarriage of justice in British history. In 2019 she became chair of the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London but in December 2020 left this role early. In April 2021, following the quashing of 39 of the sub-postmasters’ convictions, she resignedunder pressurefrom her duties as an Anglican priest, and from directorships at retailer Dunelm and at supermarket chain Morrisons. Early life and education Vennells was born in 1959, and grew up in Denton, Lancashire. Having won a funded place, she was educated at the Manchester Hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Hart
Ian Davies (born 8 October 1964), better known by his stage name Ian Hart, is an English actor. His most notable roles are Rabbit in the Channel Four drama miniseries '' One Summer'' (1983), Joe O'Reilly in the biopic '' Michael Collins'' (1996), Professor Quirrell in the fantasy film ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' (2001), Ludwig van Beethoven in the film ''Eroica'' (2003), Kester Gill in the E4 series '' My Mad Fat Diary'' (2013–2015), and Father Beocca in the BBC/Netflix series '' The Last Kingdom'' (2015–2020). Early life Hart was born Ian Davies in the Knotty Ash district of Liverpool on 8 October 1964. He has two siblings and was brought up in a Catholic family. He attended Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School in Liverpool's West Derby suburb and was a member of the city's Everyman Youth Theatre in his earlier years, before studying drama at the now-defunct Mabel Fletcher College of Music and Drama in Liverpool's Wavertree district. From 1988 to 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Arbuthnot
James Norwich Arbuthnot, Baron Arbuthnot of Edrom, (born 4 August 1952), is a British Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Wanstead and Woodford from 1987 to 1997, and then MP for North East Hampshire from 1997 to 2015. Arbuthnot served as chairman of the Defence Select Committee from 2005 to 2014, before being nominated as a life peer in the Dissolution Peerages List 2015 of August 2015. Created Baron Arbuthnot of Edrom, of Edrom in the County of Berwick, on 1 October 2015, Lord Arbuthnot sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords. Early life Arbuthnot was born in Deal, Kent, the second son of Sir John Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet, MP for Dover between 1950 and 1964, and Margaret Jean Duff.''Burke's Peerage 2003'', page 126 He was educated at Wellesley House School in Broadstairs and Eton College, where he was captain of School, before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a law degree (BA) in 1974. Arbuthnot wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bates V Post Office Ltd (No 3)
''Bates v Post Office Ltd (No 3)'' [2019EWHC 606 (QB)is a part judgment (1 of 6), made in the group litigation order case of ''Bates & Others v Post Office Ltd'', an English contract law case, concerning the term of good faith and the British Post Office scandal. Facts 550 sub-postmasters and others claimed that the Post Office’s Horizon software system for sales and accounting was defective and threw up accounting shortfalls for which the Post Office then wrongly held them accountable. They argued this was a breach of contract, and good faith. The Post Office argued that the claimants were responsible for the shortfalls. This represented actual money missing, and brought many prosecutions, culminating in the British Post Office scandal. Judgment In the High Court, Fraser J, held there was a relational contract with a duty of good faith, fair dealing and transparency in the terms on liability, payment, termination and suspension in the contract. Some provisions were too unusual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justice For Subpostmasters Alliance
The British Post Office scandal is a miscarriage of justice involving the wrongful civil and criminal prosecutions of an unknown or unpublished number of sub-postmasters (SPMs) for theft, false accounting and/or fraud. The cases constitute the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history, spanning a period of over twenty years and it remains unresolved. After some convicted SPMs successfully sued the Post Office, 555 convictions were declared unsafe and to have been obtained unlawfully. By 2022, 736 prosecutions had been identified, 81 convictions had been overturned and more were expected to be quashed. The number of those affected by other types of abuse by the Post Office, torts, breach of contract, coercion etc., has not been tabulated or published. The prosecutions, civil actions, and extortions resulted in criminal convictions, false confessions, imprisonments, defamation, loss of livelihood, bankruptcy, divorce, and suicide. In 1996, International Comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
