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Post Office’s losing streak continues
Hi all! Here’s my write-up of what happened in court today. Basically: The Post Office lost their attempt to win permission to appeal the Common Issues judgment. They lost their attempt to have the Common Issues costs payment to the claimants reserved (held back) until the end of the litigation. They lost their attempt to…
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Today’s Post Office reading list
Ah – there you are… There have been a few things of interest published today. 1) The first is an extraordinary piece of journalism published today by Tony Collins entitled: “Would you feel safer in a plane or running a village Post Office?“ For anyone wishing to understand the problem the Post Office has with…
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Select committee Post Office inquiry hearing
Hello secret emailers Thanks to the magic of the internet I am sitting in my hotel room in Stuttgart watching a recording of this morning’s select committee inquiry into the Post Office network. And now you can too. You can find the video here on Post Office Trial or here on the parliament.uk website. Before…
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Post Office vs Mental Health: Wendy’s story
Hi As promised in this morning’s secret email, I said I would put up the first of the Post Office vs Mental Health pieces soon. Here is Wendy’s story. I am very grateful to Wendy for allowing me to ask her some difficult questions and for her gracious forbearance when I went back to her…
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Appeal application news & urgent request from the Daily Mail
Happy Monday secret emailers! Or is it? 1) The Post Office have confirmed they are to ask the High Court for permission to appeal the Common Issues trial judgment. More details and how this might play out going forward here. 2) Sam Greenhill, the Daily Mail’s ace chief reporter, is seeking reaction / comments to…
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Post Office vs Pete Murray pt 2
Last Friday I posted up a harrowing story, told by Pete Murray, postmaster of Grove Road in Wallasey and Hope Farm Road in Great Sutton. It got immediately overshadowed by the Court of Appeal recusal application decision. This is a shame. I have just posted up part 2 of Pete’s story. It takes the form…
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Post Office vs Mental Health
Apologies for getting in touch so soon after the last secret email, but something happened on twitter over the last 24 hours which I think is worth bringing to your attention. The Post Office put out a couple of worthy tweets about mental health which would all be very commendable, but for their alleged track…
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The Tuesday after the weekend before
It was meant to be the Monday after the weekend before, but we’ve tiptoed past midnight again… Anyway. Hello secret emailers. A very short note to let you know about the latest blog post which went up just before midnight. It contains the strongest acknowledgment yet that the Post Office intends to seek permission to…
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Court of Appeal gives Post Office the bird
J Fraser is going nowhere Hello secret emailers Sir Peter Fraser will remain the managing judge of Bates v Post Office until its conclusion. In a judgment which doesn’t have a single kind word to say about the Post Office, Lord Justice Coulson says everything about J Fraser’s decision not to recuse himself was correct.…
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“The Post Office claim I owe them £35,000”
Hello secret emailers This is a note to alert you to a story I’ve been sitting on for a while as the protagonist goes through goodness knows what kind of nightmare. The Subpostmaster in question is Pete Murray, who up until 1 November 2018 ran two post offices: Hope Farm Road in Great Sutton and…