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Post Office trial: recusal hearing live-tweets unrolled
Hello I’ve just got out of the recusal hearing. J Fraser isn’t going to hand down his judgment until Tuesday next at the earliest. You’ll get a transcript and full report later, but here is a link to a nicely-formatted webpage with all my live-tweets in one place. It’s like being in the room. TIP:…
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Post Office trial: secret email 3 April – Back to Court
Morning secret emailers I’m preparing to head up to London for the recusal hearing. For those of you who have missed what has been going on recently, on 22 March the ongoing Bates v Post Office litigation was dramatically halted as the Post Office made an application for the judge to recuse (sack) himself on…
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Common Issues judgment – the NFSP gets shredded
Hi! A quick email before tomorrow’s recusal hearing to let you know I have written a piece on the shredding that the National Federation of Subpostmasters got in the recent judgment: Common issues judgment: the NFSP As I say at the bottom of the piece I am looking for stories about the NFSP – specifically…
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Post Office trial: Common Issues judgment – who won what?
Hello there secret emailers! Feels like it’s been a while. I have decided to spend today and tomorrow completing my epic task to fisk the common issues judgment. The fruit of today’s labour is all the Common Issues in the common issues judgment and the judge’s findings on them in one place. It is called:…
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Post Office trial: catching up is so very hard to do
One off the fisk Good afternoon secret emailers I have posted up part 4 of my fisking of the common issues trial judgment. After Monday’s 5000+ word epic, I have kept this down to a reasonable size. It deals with the judge’s finding on the Post Office’s general attitude, and his reading of the infamous…
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Post Office trial: The Smoking Gun
Hello secret emailers I write this as Gareth Southgate’s youthful England side are having the wind knocked out of them by a plucky Montenegran side who have taken the lead with the only attack of the game so far. Sometimes the unfancied minnows topple a really big outfit. But there’s a long way to go….…
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Post Office trial: Je recuse
Hi there Just a very quick post to let you know I’ve set out the recusal situation and the response to it. Read it here I hadn’t seen the comments from Freeths, the JFSA solicitors until just now. This is what they have said to the claimants: “Post Office has strongly resisted this Group Litigation…
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Post Office trial secret email 22 March
The long game Hello secret emailers I had always expected to spend today “on the clock” doing an admin day. The plan was to mop up everything from the first two weeks of the trial, get some evidence posted up and ensure the Horizon Trial Menu was up to speed (right now it’s very much…
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Going Postal
Evening all I have written up what happened this afternoon, posted up the transcript and posted up the recusal application. Do have a look at the links below. I realise many of you are stunned by what has happened today. We are going to have a gap in the trial proceedings now. One lawyer thought…
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Horizon trial stopped with immediate effect
Wowsers. The trial has been stopped. An application has been made to recuse the judge from the trial and all future trials in this litigation on the grounds of bias. This is the story as it unfolded through my tweets (worth reading for the revelations in the morning too) This is the Post Office’s rationale…
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