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Day 5 write-up: Final Lead claimant is cross-examined
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court There was only one witness today (Louise Dar – above) and court finished early. I have posted today’s tweets from the courtroom here. It’s up to you whether you read them first, if at all. This write-up can be read in isolation. Ms…
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Day 5 – live tweets
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Tweets from the day, edited for format and legibility. Read them below, on Thread Reader, or the originals here: Okay we are in court 26 of the Rolls Buildings for Day 5. Michael from the @ft is here. Yesterday’s witness Liz Stockdale is…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 14 November
Making plans Morning campers It is Day 5 of the Bates and others v Post Office common issues trial. It is the turn of the final Lead Claimant, Louise Dar, to be cross-examined today. We’re due to finish at 3pm which means you should get your write-up slightly earlier than usual. We are also going…
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Day 4 – Naushad Abdulla and Liz Stockdale
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court It’s unfair to compare and contrast the two Lead Claimants who were cross-examined in court today. They are two individuals who do not deserve to be lumped together, simply because they happened to be in the witness box on the fourth day of…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 13 November
Making plans Hello secret emailers I am on the train heading towards Waterloo. From there it’s a short-ish walk over Waterloo Bridge and probably along Embankment cutting up Exeter Street onto the Strand, Fleet Street, up Fetter Lane and into Rolls Buildings for Day 4 of the Post Office Trial. This morning before breakfast I…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 12 November
What do you think of it so far? Hello emailers If you are a journalist reading this, could I point you toward the piece I wrote this morning before court started. (Read it here) Two documents which, if we had seen them almost certainly would have changed the complexion of the Panorama I had a…
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Day 2 – Pam Stubbs and Mohammad Sabir
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Although the courtroom was busier than its been since the trial started, with a large number of former Subpostmasters and observers from the Post Office, there were only two journalists present, a deeply unwell Karl Flinders from Computer Weekly and meself. I spent…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 11 November
Are we all ready for week 2? Hi there secret emailers Forgive the radio silence on Friday – I had a job which was nothing to do with the trial to complete. If I am offered jobs on days during this trial when the court isn’t sitting, I might take them, in order to make…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 8 November
Alan Bates day in court Hello friends. Quite an odd one today – it should have been more exciting than it was, but there was no sense of occasion. Finally, the man who has campaigned against the Post Office and gathered so many similarly disaffected people around him, worked for years for very little recompense…
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Post Office Trial – Day 2 – Alan Bates and Pam Stubbs take the stand
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Fifteen years after his sacking, Alan Bates, former postmaster of Craig-y-Don Post Office in Llandudno, North Wales, had his day in court. Alan was there to be cross-examined on his evidence as one of the Lead Claimants to the Common Issues trial, which…
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