Award-winning Investigative journalist Nick Wallis brought the Post Office scandal to public attention via three Panoramas, a long-running international award-winning Radio 4 series and podcast (The Great Post Office Trial), his book The Great Post Office Scandal, and his work as the series consultant on Mr Bates vs The Post Office.
He now speaks regularly to corporate and lay audiences about the extraordinary injustice that saw sub-postmasters wrongly imprisoned for theft, false accounting and fraud.
Nick Wallis is an award-winning freelance journalist and broadcaster. He has worked with the BBC, Private Eye and ITN. His Radio 4 series on The Post Office Scandal has been nominated for national awards.
Nick’s second book, Depp v Heard: The Unreal Story came out in May 2023. Nick was the only journalist on the ground at both the UK and the US trials so no one is better placed to try and make sense of this story.
In London he live-tweeted from inside the court, securing and publishing daily transcripts of proceedings. In doing so he connected with millions of people who followed his reporting on social media. Nick was the first to tell the world that Depp had lost against the Sun and that he’d failed in his application to appeal.
Nick then crowdfunded his way to Virginia for the second trial, embedding himself as an independent reporter, witnessing all the evidence whilst engaging with the media throng and the fans. As coverage of the trial snowballed, turning Depp v Heard into the first “Trial by TikTok”, Nick experienced the effect it had on everyone involved inside and outside the courtroom.
The book seeks to tell the definitive story of the saga, one that transfixed millions of people. In the engaging, page-turning style of his first book Nick sets up the legal drama, weaves his own reportage through the story and analyses of the evidence to unearth the real truth behind Depp v Heard.
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Updates on the legal cases to date and the ongoing enquiry
Nick Wallis writes regularly on the progress of the court case for the nationals and is an excellent speaker on the legal processes but also on the human stories that emerged from this scandal.
Brand or human beings?
The impact of taking the wrong side.
US law vs UK
The differences between the US and UK legal systems based on Nick's experience of following the Depp v Heard case.
The Great Post Office Scandal
– The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail
“Nick Wallis' talk to my team on the Post Office scandal was gripping and a powerful testament to investigative journalism at its best… we have since had him back to talk to us more on recent developments.”
Rebecca Symondson, Group Legal Director, Vodafone
“Nick spoke at one of our conferences last year, it was electric in the room to say the least.”
Benjamin White, Founder of Crafty Counsel - a community bringing joy, insight, and connection to in-house legal professionals
“Wednesday evening at the Yvonne Arnaud theatre was probably the most compelling and gripping time I can remember in any theatre at least since the David Hare Trilogy at the National Theatre in, I think, 1993. Only this time it was not fictional.”
Ken McIntyre, theatre-goer who attended Nick’s talk, Post Office Scandal: the Inside Story