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Judicial Review of Post Office compensation scheme fails at application hearing
Chirag: “we’ll be back” Definitely, definitely a shorter email this time. Chirag Sidhpura’s attempt to force a judicial review of the Post Office Historical Shortfall Scheme failed at an application hearing today. I have written a piece about it here. It was my first attempt at live-tweeting a virtual High Court hearing. When it works,…
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Government latest on Horizon scandal and back to the High Court tomorrow
“Full and final settlement…” Hello again, secret email friends, After yesterday’s epic, I’ll try to keep it brief. I took a break from writing this morning to watch a short parliamentary debate which picked up on some of the continuing fallout from the Bates v Post Office litigation, specifically the hopeless failure of the courts…
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Curse of AvdB confirmed and Post Office Horizon IT being raised in parliament tomorrow
Post Office toxicity spreads…. Good evening. Four things for you to consider tonight: 1. The Curse of AvdB is confirmed. 2. The Post Office Horizon system and the way the courts deal with IT will be in the parliamentary spotlight at 11am tomorrow. 3. The Judicial Review application hearing scheduled for Thursday is still currently…
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Chirag’s Judicial Review reaches the High Court, plus 17 Dec Court of Appeal transcript now live
2021 finally gets going… Hello everyone A special welcome to all the new secret emailers who have joined as a result of the current crowdfunding campaign. I am deeply indebted to everyone who has donated and you’ll be pleased to know I am finding the process of writing 100,000 words on the Post Office Horizon…
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Two new transcripts posted including first historic convictions quashed
Transcripts and CoA latest Good morning Firstly – thanks to every single secret email reader, new and old, who has donated to my second crowdfunding campaign. Given the start we have made it looks likely I am going to be able to cover both the forthcoming Court of Appeal hearings and any further open sessions…
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Book deal klaxon
The Great Post Office Scandal is go I’m delighted to tell you that I have signed a deal with Bath Publishing to write a book about the Post Office Horizon scandal. It has a working title (see above), and it will be available in hardback in Autumn 2021. Bath Publishing are brilliant. They have been…
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Post Office director who tried to mislead a High Court judge brings down Wales football boss
The curse of Angela van den Bogerd Hello again My thanks to a number of people who have drawn my attention to extraordinary developments at the Welsh FA. Jonathan Ford, the organisation’s high-flying chief executive has suffered a humiliating vote of no confidence and has been placed on gardening leave whilst his future is deliberated.…
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Fujitsu were told Horizon IT system did not work shortly before it was rolled out
New whistleblower comes forward In what could be one of the most significant developments in the Horizon story since Fujitsu engineer Richard Roll spoke to Panorama in 2015, a former troubleshooter on the pre-rollout Horizon system has given an interview to Computer Weekly, calling Horizon: “a prototype that had been bloated and hacked together afterwards…
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“I hate the Post Office. I HATE them.”
Whitewash inc. Hello I have finally got round to watching and reading the transcript of the first (and so far only) oral evidence session to be posted up on the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry website. I started writing about it just for this newsletter, but the post got so long I turned it into…
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Harrowing evidence trickles in to the Williams inquiry
Goodbye, lockdown January Hello, lockdown February Apologies for the relative radio silence throughout January. I started doing some work on a side-project which was far harder than I thought it was going to be. I am parking that for a while as the latest chapters in the Post Office Horizon scandal begin to open up…
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