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Bates v Post Office: “There will be at least three more trials”
Not the headline I expected to be writing after going through the Reasons for the High Court refusing the Post Office’s application to appeal the Common Issues (first) trial judgment. But it’s there on the final page, in the final paragraph. You can read my fisking of the Refusal here and you can read the…
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Horizon trial: all over bar the judgment
Horizon trial: no more coconuts Bon soir secret emailers So that’s the Horizon (second) trial done and dusted. The biggest headline of the day is that the third trial has been shifted to 2 March 2020 because both parties agree there isn’t enough time between now and November to prepare for it. Read through the…
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Horizon trial: Where’s Wally?
Hello It’s very late so I won’t add much to today’s report, which you can find here. The transcript came very late today, but you can find it here. The claimants’ written closing submissions are here. For completeness, you can read a beautifully formatted thread of today’s live tweets here. And if you have the…
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Claimants closing submissions today
Hello all The last two days of the Horizon trial are today and tomorrow. It began in March and was knocked off course by the Post Office’s attempt to have the judge recused. There’s been a lot of water under the bridge since then, but in concrete terms, very little seems to have changed. One…
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Meeting the minister
Sorry to send out two secret emails on a non-court day, but for those of you who aren’t on twitter (which I suspect is a majority of secret emailers), you may have missed a couple of things I posted today on www.postofficetrial.com The first is a suitably breathless account of my first experience of meeting…
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Kelly Tolhurst: today in parliament
Hello secret emailers I’m off to Portcullis House today, powered entirely by your donations. I’m spending the morning in the Thatcher Room finding out if the BEIS Select Committee is going to ask Kelly Tolhurst (the Postal Services Minister – pictured above) any questions about the Bates and others v Post Office group litigation and…
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Tracy Felstead: in today’s Daily Mail
Tracy Felstead: thrown in prison aged 19 Morning all – you may remember I was hinting I would be publishing former Post Office worker Tracy Felstead’s story on my blog, and then it all went a bit quiet. Tracy had very kindly agreed to be interviewed for my Post Office vs Mental Health strand about…
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Worden’s Burden – day 20 report and Horizon trial summary
Hello How’s your evening going? Mine’s been spent writing up a load of Words on Worden and other Horizon-related things. That report is here. Today’s transcript is here. Today’s collated tweets are here. Do please have a quick squiz at them if you feel so moved. Court is now not sitting until 1 July for…
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No One Is Getting In A DeLorean
Hello secret emailers Today’s report “No One Is Getting In A DeLorean” is up. You’ll have to read it to find out why it’s called that. I walked out of court with a sense that it was honours even today. The Post Office’s independent IT expert stuck to his guns in the face of a…
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Post Office is today’s Daily Mail front page
Morning secret emailers – just on my way up to court and spotted this DM front page. It’s not about the trial, but it shows the intense interest the Daily Mail is developing in all things Post Office related. You can read the story here. The man behind the story is the Daily Mail’s financial…