A Post Office director has told a parliamentary select committee that the company sent compensation letters marked ‘without prejudice’ to victims of the Horizon scandal following legal advice from Herbert Smith Freehills.
Speaking at the business and trade committee, Simon Recaldin, the Post Office’s remediation matters director, said that HSF had advised the Post Office to send the letters, which told postmasters they could not show the details of their settlement offers to others, “unless for a legitimate reason and on confidential terms”.
