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The Tuesday after the weekend before
It was meant to be the Monday after the weekend before, but we’ve tiptoed past midnight again… Anyway. Hello secret emailers. A very short note to let you know about the latest blog post which went up just before midnight. It contains the strongest acknowledgment yet that the Post Office intends to seek permission to…
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Court of Appeal gives Post Office the bird
J Fraser is going nowhere Hello secret emailers Sir Peter Fraser will remain the managing judge of Bates v Post Office until its conclusion. In a judgment which doesn’t have a single kind word to say about the Post Office, Lord Justice Coulson says everything about J Fraser’s decision not to recuse himself was correct.…
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“The Post Office claim I owe them £35,000”
Hello secret emailers This is a note to alert you to a story I’ve been sitting on for a while as the protagonist goes through goodness knows what kind of nightmare. The Subpostmaster in question is Pete Murray, who up until 1 November 2018 ran two post offices: Hope Farm Road in Great Sutton and…
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The ONLY Post Office interview
Hello friends I realise I’m turning into a bit of a completist, but I thought you might like to read a transcript of the only time the Post Office has agreed to be interviewed about Horizon. It was a Today programme interview in 2014 and it features Mark Davies, the Post Office Director of Communications.…
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And with that… she was gone.
Hello again! Sorry about this – I got sent some info marking Paula Vennells formal departure from the Post Office and felt moved to blog about it. Please give it a read and perhaps forward the link to an MP or Imperial College NHS Trust or something. I don’t know. If you missed it, earlier…
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Alan Bates interview – for the record
Morning secret emailers Just over six weeks ago Alan Bates stood outside the High Court’s Rolls building holding in his arms an enormous and significant judgment. He gave a press conference and a series of interviews in the immediate aftermath of the judgment, as did James Hartley, a litigation partner at Freeths and the lead…
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“I am ready to take any action against the Post Office”
Heey I have a guest blogger for you – a journalist who has his ear to the ground. His words will be familiar to every current Subpostmaster, so his opinion may well be of interest. His name is Jack Courtez from Retail Newsagent and Retail Express and you can read what he has to say…
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“I balanced and it showed a loss of £32,000”
Hi there secret emailers I’m heading down to Southend, taking in the stunning views across the Thames Estuary mudflats at Chalkwell. Not what I expected to be doing at 7am this morning as I struggled aboard a busy commuter train in deepest Surrey. But that’s the job. The train time has given me a few…
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Horizon trial: The Story So Far
Good morning all Amazingly most of the children have stayed in bed long enough for me to bring the Horizon trial menu up to date. When I started thinking about the workflow for this project, I must admit I didn’t really take into account the time I would spend generally bashing the keyboard from a…
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Common Issues trial: The Box Set
Common Issues box set: Deluxe edition Remember the Common Issues trial? Happened a while back. The judgment was just over a month ago. It turned everything in this story on its head. For years it had been the word of the Subpostmasters against the Post Office. And despite a select committee inquiry, several parliamentary debates…
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