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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 -
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If you're reading this, stop - turn on the TV instead and watch this now! #PostOfficeScandal
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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
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"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? 😂
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RT @NielsLadefoged : @laurilove statement before entering the court building.
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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:
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3 years
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
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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 1/
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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:
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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
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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
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"Tiny" 🤔😂 💪🏻
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#PostOffceScandal #PostOfficeInquiry #MrBatesvthePostOffice computer Weekly made Sunday Times and Guardian this weekend. The fight is just beginning after many years
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Basel banking supervision edict stretches banks’ risk data governance:
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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:
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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
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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:
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And this year’s Most Influential Woman in UK IT is Code First: Girls CEO Amali de Alwis @amali_d . Huge congratulations! #CWwit50
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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:
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HMRC denies misleading House of Lords over IT contractors’ use of tax avoidance schemes
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Congratulations to the most influential women in UK tech, from 11 to 20: 11 @MissPhilbin 12 @AnneBoden 13 @Abadesi 14 @helenmilner 15 @Doctoe 16 @janetcoyle2 17 @naomitimperley 18 @SukiFuller 19 @Rioch1 20 @Alicebentinck Full list:
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FBI seized ‘legally privileged’ material from Ecuador Embassy, claims Julian Assange’s lawyer
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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:
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RT @Williamrt : Police challenged over refusal to disclose files on WikiLeaks staff
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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:
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RT @CarrotyD : #IR35 reforms: MPs call on government to clean up UK’s ‘wild west’ contracting labour supply chain
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6 years
CIO interview: Tom Read, chief digital & information officer, Ministry of Justice - @thommeread
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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
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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:
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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
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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:
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Our first internal #WomenInIT meeting here at @ComputerWeekly was a huge success! A mentorship programme, #charity work and making sure that #diversity actually means #diverse are just a few things we want to tackle in the future - do you have any other ideas for us? #womenintech
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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
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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... 😉
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The Post Office received £1bn taxpayer subsidy last year to help pay compensation to victims of the Horizon IT scandal:
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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’
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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:
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Conservative Party has deleted all its pre-election speeches from internet- not just its website, the whole internet: http://t.co/EAj5Tsy6Hn
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@datadictum Clearly, neither did he... 😉
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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
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Congratulations to @aimafidon on being named as the most influential woman in UK technology 2020! #CWwit50
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#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 -
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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:
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MPs accuse government of unduly interfering in information commissioner appointment
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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
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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:
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RT @Williamrt : Court grants Lauri Love appeal against extradition @silkiecarlo @davidburrowesmp @couragefound
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Let´s look at how companies are doing #BI and #analytics on data stores. @MunichRe @MicroStrategy #SiliconValley
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Loan charge MPs urge chancellor to get HMRC to soften contractor settlements
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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:
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Congratulations to @JackyWrightHMRC @SarahFWilkinson @JdR_Tech Ciaran Martin @NCSC Elizabeth Denham @ICOnews @CindyRose @gerardgrech Stuart Birrell @HeathrowAirport Sharon White @Ofcom and @amali_d the 10 most influential people in UK tech 2018 #UKtech50
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#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 -
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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:
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Judge refuses to delay Assange's extradition hearing over coronavirus pandemic
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Congratulations to the most influential women in tech, from 31 to 40 31 @turnipshire 32 @UKPriyaGuha 33 @JuneAngelides 34 @bethanykoby 35 @elena_sinel 36 @checkwarner 37 @mmeentrepreneur 38 @PoppyGustafsson 39 @nirushika 40 @carlykind_ Full list:
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Meet all the amazing women who were nominated as the most influential women in UK tech: Top 50 vote starts next week
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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
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