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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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The legal and journalistic sideshow to the forthcoming appeal hearings
Important, tho Hello secret emailers Students of the legalistic shenanigans surrounding this story may be interested in a few documents I’ve posted up over the last couple of days. Two are rulings related to the “contempt” hearing at the Court of Appeal on 3 Dec. I have put the word contempt in inverted commas because…
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Four more CCRC referrals
CCRC’s solid half-century A belated Happy New Year to you all. I hope you had a good Christmas break and you are dealing with lockdown okay. I met my first vaccinee (?!) on Monday and my in-laws (who are both in their 70s) are getting theirs tomorrow. I have cranked up the secret email to…
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Barrister fires off coruscating letter to judges in Subpostmaster case – read it here
Marshall (and the) law Early this morning I published a coruscating letter written by the barrister Paul Marshall to the Court of Appeal as he stood down from representing three former Subpostmasters – Seema Misra, Janet Skinner and Tracy Felstead. In it, Mr Marshall notes he has been made subject of possible contempt charges (which…
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