A Post Office scandal victim has called for a top lawyer to be removed from administering Horizon redress schemes.
Former sub-postmaster Lee Castleton said Rodric Williams was “conflicted”.
Mr Williams was a litigation lawyer at the Post Office while it was prosecuting sub-postmasters.
Mr Williams was a litigation lawyer at the Post Office while it was prosecuting sub-postmasters.
Between 1999 and 2015, hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrongfully convicted of offences including theft and false accounting on the strength of faulty data from the Post Office’s Horizon IT system.
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Castleton said the process of getting compensation was “still very adversarial because the people in the process of giving redress are people who have been involved in probably the last 10 or 15 years of… Post Office problems”.
“This gentleman here is still a lead lawyer. He needs removing. You cannot be conflicted more so than he is, in my belief. He’s conflicted in many different ways, but he just needs removing from the process.”
Mr Castleton added that the victims “don’t need to be traumatised any more and it needs to be done by an independent person”.
Mr Williams rose through the ranks to become the Post Office’s current head of legal for dispute resolution and brand. This unit handles appeals from sub-postmasters, compensation and redress.
A Post Office scandal victim has called for a top lawyer to be removed from administering Horizon redress schemes.
Mr Williams was a litigation lawyer at the Post Office while it was prosecuting sub-postmasters.
Former sub-postmaster Lee Castleton said Rodric Williams was “conflicted”.
Between 1999 and 2015, hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrongfully convicted of offences including theft and false accounting on the strength of faulty data from the Post Office’s Horizon IT system.
Mr Williams was a litigation lawyer at the Post Office while it was prosecuting sub-postmasters.
Mr Williams was a litigation lawyer at the Post Office while it was prosecuting sub-postmasters.
Between 1999 and 2015, hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrongfully convicted of offences including theft and false accounting on the strength of faulty data from the Post Office’s Horizon IT system.
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Castleton said the process of getting compensation was “still very adversarial because the people in the process of giving redress are people who have been involved in probably the last 10 or 15 years of… Post Office problems”.
“This gentleman here is still a lead lawyer. He needs removing. You cannot be conflicted more so than he is, in my belief. He’s conflicted in many different ways, but he just needs removing from the process.”
Mr Castleton added that the victims “don’t need to be traumatised any more and it needs to be done by an independent person”.
Mr Williams rose through the ranks to become the Post Office’s current head of legal for dispute resolution and brand. This unit handles appeals from sub-postmasters, compensation and redress.
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