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Horizon trial: Sterling Works
Nick Wallis
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As promised – I’ve finally done me accounts! You can find all the grubby incriminating details here. I think I’ve said everything I need to say in the blog post itself, so please click on it if you want to see how your hard-earned moolah has been spent. Other things 1: Techy talk Tim McCormack,…
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Horizon trial: The Next Chapter
Nick Wallis
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Hey there secret emailers I’m back from my hols and starting the process of tidying up the Post Office Trial website. I say starting, because I haven’t actually done any yet. The reason for that is because I received a document yesterday of minimal legal significance, but symbolic nonetheless: the first formal acknowledgment that Bates…
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Horizon trial: day 12 – Getting the show back on the road
Nick Wallis
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Morning all! I wasn’t in court yesterday, but I have been sent the transcript and witness statements of the one witness who was cross-examined in court yesterday, so I have got something of a feel for what happened. If you want to get a feel yourself, you can find all the relevant documents here. Fujitsu’s…
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Post Office loses recusal appeal in stinging judgment
Nick Wallis
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Morning secret emailers Not only has the judge refused to recuse himself on grounds of apparent bias, he has made it quite clear the “curious” tactics of the Post Office in their way of making the recusal application waived any right they might have had to ask him to do so. He also found that…
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Recusal judgment WILL be tomorrow
Nick Wallis
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Alright pop pickers The recusal judgment WILL be handed down at 2pm tomorrow in court 26 of the Rolls Building. The judge may then tell everyone what happens next – he may not. Unfortunately I cannot be there, but Mrs Goggins can and will. Mrs Goggins is a fictional postmaster run by a real former…
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Common Issues Trial Judgment Cheat Sheet!
Nick Wallis
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Hello secret emailers! I’ve gone through the Common Issues judgment again and written up a Common Issues Cheat Sheet. Now instead of having to trawl through a 180,000 words to remember what the judge said about the Post Office, its witnesses and the Common Issues, you can find them all on the end of one…
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Post Office trial: recusal transcript and write-up
Nick Wallis
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Hello It’s very late at night/early in the morning, but I thought you’d like to read my write up of yesterday’s recusal hearing. You can read it alongside the: Live tweets of proceedings Transcript of proceedings Post Office skeleton arguments JFSA skeleton arguments and make up your own mind about the way this is going.…
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Post Office trial: recusal hearing live-tweets unrolled
Nick Wallis
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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
Nick Wallis
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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
Nick Wallis
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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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