Sir Alan Bates reaches for the offer of 'Take IT of. Leave it 'Kangaroo Court' Court 'Post | UK News

Sir Alan Bates has accused the government of preparing a “quasi Kangaroo Court” for post office compensation.

In the Sunday Times, the activist who led years of effort for justice for Subpostmasters wrote that he had received an offer “Take it or leave it”, which was less than half of his original assertion.

“The subpostmaster's compensation systems were converted into quasi-Kangaroo dishes in which the Department of Economic Affairs and Trade judges the claims and changes the goal items when it is chosen,” he said.

“Claims are and have been repulsed because they cannot legally produce them or that the parameters of the schemas do not extend to certain elements.”

Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 subpostmasters were pursued under criminal law after the faulty Horizon accounting software made as if money was missing in their accounts.

Many are still waiting for compensation, although the previous government said that those who had lifted their convictions were justified for £ 600,000 pounds.

After the post office ended its contract for a false deficit in 2003, Sir Alan began to look for other subpostmasters and finally took the post office in court.

A GLO program (Group Litigation Order) was set up to make amends for 555 applicants who brought the post office to the High Court between 2017 and 2019.

Sir Alan, who was portrayed by actor Toby Jones in the ITV drama Bates against the post office, called for an independent body to achieve compensation.

He added that the promise that the compensation systems would be “not legalistic” would be “worthless”.

It is assumed that around 80% of the postmaster in the group of Sir Alan accepted complete and final reparation or paid most of their offer.

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A spokesman for the business and trade division said to Sky News: “We pay all the postmasters who suffered from this scandal, including Sir Alan, for his tireless campaign for Justice, and we have quadrupled the overall amount that has been paid to Postmasters since entering the government.

“We acknowledge that there will be no evidence due to the period of time, and we therefore want to use the doubts about doubts as possible.

“Anyone who is dissatisfied with their offer can check their case by an expert body, which is independent of the government.”