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Talking turkey
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court I said I would account for what I had “earned” from the Kickstarter campaign and PayPal tip jar on the www.postofficetrial.com website. It looks like this… Income: Kickstarter = £8397 Paypal tip jar = £2245.52 Total income: £10642.52 Expenditure: 18 days work at…
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CCRC delays its decision till after the first High Court judgment
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Further to my post on 1 Dec about the Criminal Cases Review Commission. They’ve sent letters to the 30-odd former Subpostmasters whose cases they are reviewing telling them they will not be making any decision about their cases at least until after the…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 21 Dec
It’s beginning to look a lot like… Hello secret emailers! Sorry I’ve been quiet of late. The day after the trial finished I went back to ITV News and I’ve been there since, working on a number of things. I have found a few hours to work on the Post Office Trial, much of it…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 11 Dec
New guest post Hello secret emailers! Just a quick one to let you know I’ve put up a guest post by Tim McCormack, a former Postmaster with strong views on the Post Office. You can read his thoughts here. I have a couple more which I’ll try to get up over the course of this…
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Day 15 write-up: Not even the end of the beginning
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Fifteen days doesn’t sound like much, but I feel like I’ve been through the wringer. Trying to synthesise and process the volumes of information which have come out of this trial is going to take weeks. I will give you a quick summary…
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Day 15 – live tweets
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Day 15 of the Post Office trial – 229 live tweets compiled below for your easy reading pleasure. You can also read them here on thread reader or read the originals here on twitter: FINAL DAY of the #postofficetrial. Follow this thread for…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 6 Dec
Lights, camera, traction And so, secret emailers, the end is near. Today is the last day of the Common Issues trial, and we go not with a bang, but five hours of Mr David Cavender QC explaining precisely why this action is really a bit of tin pot fuss about nothing and any findings the…
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Day 14 write-up: What the Post Office did next
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court I was dreading today. I thought it was going to be like the first day of the JFSA QC’s closing argument (see Day 12 and the JFSA closing written submission) which was full of opaque exchanges about the meaning of certain sentences and words within…
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Day 14 – live tweets
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Day 14 of the Post Office trial – 219 live tweets compiled below for your easy reading pleasure. You can also read them here on thread reader or read the originals here on twitter: Day 15 of Bates v Post Office about to…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 5 Dec
Late opening, all day closing Hiya secret emailers! A much better day yesterday as Patrick Green, QC for the claimants got off case law and went into elements of his closing submissions he thought were important to draw attention to the judge. Today is the turn of David Cavender, QC for the Post Office, to…
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