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<p>My Department has offered to meet the reasonable legal costs of postmasters applying
to the GLO scheme in line with a tariff agreed with claimants’ legal representatives.
I wrote to all GLO postmasters in December 2022 advising them not to engage any lawyer
who asks them for payment, as this might mean their compensation would be reduced
by legal costs which they could not recover. My Department’s understanding is that
only one lawyer has been engaged on that basis, representing one or two out of 492
claimants in the GLO scheme.</p>
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