Post Office scandal campaigner Alan Bates knighted in King's birthday honours; Former PM Gordon Brown, LSE chief Julia Hoggett and HSBC chair Mark Tucker all receive recognition

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  • Author(s): By:Laura Hughes and Michael O'Dwyer in London
  • Source:
    Financial Times (London, England), June 14, 2024 FT.com site, 4pp
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    • Abstract:
      Alan Bates, lead campaigner in the UK Post Office Horizon scandal, former prime minister Gordon Brown and business chiefs from HSBC and the London Stock Exchange have received awards in King Charles III's second birthday honours list. Bates, the named litigant in a landmark 2019 court case that was brought by 555 sub-postmasters and established accounting shortfalls alleged by the Post Office were based on faulty data, was knighted for services to justice...