If you're watching
#MrBatesVsThePostOffice
and want to know more about this appalling scandal, this may help - from the publication that first broke the story:
#PostOfficeScandal
The Post Office Horizon scandal explained: Everything you need to know -
One of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history ✉️
Mr Bates vs The Post Office starts 1st January at 9pm on ITV1 and
@ITVX
👏
#MrBates
"Computer Weekly was not a publication that I subscribed to and I was unaware of their campaign," says ex-Fujitsu boss who says he knew nothing about the
#PostOfficeScandal
while it was happening on his watch.
Perhaps there's a lesson there, old chap?
😂
Police challenged over refusal to disclose files on WikiLeaks staff - lawyers will challenge Met Police on whether it holds correspondence with US law enforcement about 3
@wikileaks
staff – including two UK citizens – in a freedom of information tribunal:
For anyone following our coverage of the
#PostOfficeScandal
the speech linked to below by one of the legal team involved in the case is essential reading and really lays out the scale of the miscarriage of justice
Late yesterday afternoon, at the University of Law in London, the barrister Paul Marshall delivered one of the most important speeches on the Post Office Horizon Scandal to date.
#PostOfficeScandal
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Loan charge under review: thousands of IT
#contractors
are at risk of financial ruin as
#HMRC
pursues them for tax it claims they owe on work they did up to two decades ago and were reimbursed via loan remuneration schemes. Computer Weekly investigates:
Thank you to everyone who nominated a colleague as one of the most influential women in UK tech - before we reveal the shortlisted 50 for you to vote, here is the longlist of the record 430+ nominations. Congratulations to all:
#womenintech
#CWwit50
The
@metpoliceuk
has confirmed it exchanged information on
@wikileaks
staff in the UK with the US Department of Justice, which is conducting criminal investigations into the organisation
#assange
Sending our best to all the subpostmasters who get to tell their stories in the official inquiry into the Post Office scandal, that starts today. We've been campaigning since 2009 - the first publication to reveal their stories - see the timeline here:
Lawyers will challenge the Metropolitan Police Service today to confirm or deny whether it holds correspondence with US law enforcement about three
@wikileaks
staff in a freedom of information tribunal
@WLTaskForce
@WikiLeaksParty
@CommunityWL
MPs urged to back Finance Bill amendments to loan charge policy -
Loan Charge Action Group urges its members to ask their MPs to support an amendment to the controversial
#loancharge
policy that could see more people fall outside its scope:
Systems needed after
#Brexit
transition are “impossible to deliver” :
The IT required to be operational after December 2020 is almost certainly undeliverable, according to an
@instituteforgov
report:
A fresh attempt to judicially review the UK government’s controversial disguised remuneration policy is being launched, and its backers have already secured 85% of the £180,000 needed to test whether the
#loancharge
breaches EU law:
We had a record number of nominations for this year's list of the most influential women in UK technology - take a look at all 360 of the amazing women that made it onto the 2019 longlist:
#womenintech
#CWwit50
HM Treasury mulls loan charge review findings, but will not confirm public release date - contractors frustrated by lack of concrete release date for review as
#loancharge
settlement date of 31 January 2020 looms:
We're pleased to announce the longest-ever longlist of names for this year's most influential women in UK technology - congratulations to all 604 nominees
#CWwit50
:
The total cost of the
#PostOfficeScandal
to UK taxpayers is increasing - well over £1bn already.
Taxpayers to fund a further £150m for Post Office IT scandal, as campaigner considers private prosecutions of executives responsible
NHS Digital to publish new guidance on data standards - data could be a huge advantage for the NHS, but data quality and accessibility is still a challenge, says
@NHSDigital
CEO
@SarahFWilkinson
as she promises guidance on standards and interoperability:
Did you get a chance to check out our Most Influential
#WomenInTech
list for 2019? Follow along here, as we recap the top 50 women in UK tech!
#CWWit50
We investigate the cyber attack on the British Library that has rendered IT systems inoperable and caused service disruption to thousands of users -
#BritishLibrarycyberattack
explained: What you need to know:
Security company staff confirm Embassy surveillance operation against Julian
#Assange
- Spain’s National Court investigates claims that company illegally recorded meetings with politicians, lawyers and celebrities at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London:
And the winner is... Congratulations to the
#UKtech50
2017 winner - the most influential person in UK IT is Mayank Prakash, chief digital & information officer at Department for Work and Pensions
Good to see a few national newspapers today finally picking up on the £1bn cost to taxpayers of the
#PostOfficeScandal
- although they could have found out here nine days ago... 😉
Government advised to overturn all Post Office scandal convictions -
An independent board set up to advise the government on compensation for innocent subpostmasters has recommended that all the Post Office scandal convictions are ‘unsafe’
HMRC and HM Treasury confirm there are no plans to alter the
#loancharge
settlement terms, despite calls from cross-party MPs to consider doing so, dashing the hopes of affected IT contractors:
Fujitsu eyeing huge UK government bounty, despite Post Office scandal promise - controversial Horizon supplier targeting £1.3bn in govt contracts over next 12 months, despite pledge to stall bidding, leaked docs show - by
@Karlfl
#PostOfficeScandal
#IR35
private sector reforms: National Grid IT contractors up in arms over tax status assessments which claimed to have resulted in “99%” of utility firm’s off-payroll workers having their roles reclassified as inside IR35 -
Congratulations to the most influential person in UK technology 2021
@NHSDigital
chief executive
@SarahFWilkinson
Read our exclusive interview with Sarah here:
Read the full
#UKtech50
list here:
IBM celebrates quantum cloud fourth anniversary with coding challenge - tech giant has set four tasks for programmers to try out on its cloud-based quantum computer, in a bid to widen
#quantum
coding skills:
British people are waking up to the scandal that happened under their noses - victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal suffered in silence for years, but the public inquiry is giving them a voice, and at last people are listening:
#PostOfficeScandal
Lord James Arbuthnot has campaigned in Parliament on behalf of the
#postofficetrial
victims - he writes exclusively for Computer Weekly on the recent trial outcome...
The Post Office computer problem that destroyed the lives of pillars of the community:
We've published the longlist of all the nominations for our annual list of the most influential women in UK technology - over 430 of them. Take a look at all the talent in here...
#womenintech
#CWwit50
46% of this year's
#UKtech50
list of the 50 most influential people in UK technology are women - the highest ever, which is great to see. Maybe top 50% next year?
#womenintech
Ryanair plans to use machine learning to improve the travel experience for its customers, as part of its commitment to go all-in on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud:
#IR35
reforms: Defra and Ministry of Justice hit with £120m IR35 tax bill over contractor tax status errors, despite using HMRC guidance and CEST assessment tool -
Two former subpostmasters pushed to the brink of suicide after being convicted for financial crimes in the
#PostOfficeScandal
have finally had their names cleared today:
Breaking news: Government offers £600,000 compensation payments to wrongfully convicted victims of
#PostOfficeScandal
in an attempt to settle claims - but lawyer representing subpostmasters warns they could be entitled to even more:
We're delighted to reveal this year's list of the 50 most influential women in UK technology - many congratulations to the worthy winner,
@aimafidon
:
#CWwit50
We are delighted to be able to reveal 2019’s Most Influential Woman in UK IT is Debbie Forster, CEO of Tech Talent Charter,
@debbieforster
Congratulations from all of us
#CWwit50