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Kevin Hollinrake has said in his view ‘people should be prosecuted’
While appearing on BBC television this morning, Post Office minister Kevin Hollinrake has claimed that he has instructed government officials to “just settle” compensation cases where “it looks right”.
Hollinrake was being asked by an East Yorkshire subpostmaster about the legal costs involved in claiming compensation.
Lawyers are a fact of life, and they have an important role to play, of course, but we’re keen to try reduce the legal argument over these processes.
We need to simplify the process, take the common sense view. I’ve said to our officials, and to legal representatives, “if it looks right, it is right, just settle it” – that’s what we need to do.
The inquiry is unearthing the evidence, what you see now is a result of the inquiry, the statutory inquiry.
The Metropolitan police are undertaking an investigation – the Government doesn’t do that, the police do that.
We have to go through a process, we believe in the rule of law – lots of people in this room, and other people, have not had the benefit of the rule of law.
It has failed, failed these people, inexcusably.
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