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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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Victory for appellants! Limb 2 is in play….
Affronts to the public conscience I have just published my court report from today. Please read it here. It was a major victory for the appellants, driven by Seema Misra, Tracy Felstead and Janet Skinner. As a result of today, all the appellants can choose to have their appeal considered on both grounds of lack…
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One year on from the Horizon trial judgment
A momentous 12 months Whilst the Common Issues trial judgment on 15 March 2019 was, for me, the game changer (being the first time in 20 years anything had gone against the Post Office throughout the Horizon scandal), the judgment handed down by Mr Justice Fraser on 16 Dec 2019 was, if anything, more significant.…
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Barrister facing contempt charges quits Subpostmaster appeal case
Marshall steps down Anyone who thought the Court of Appeal process was going to be easy will have been brought up short by the events of the last four weeks. Three of the appellants have lost two of their barristers, with the second, Paul Marshall, going today. Mr Marshall leaves with the praise of his…