Archives :
Newsletter Posts
-
Day 12 write-up: Don’t tell him, Pike!
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Day 12 was the first day of the closing submissions by the claimants and it was entirely taken up with reference to what the claimants QC Patrick Green referred to as “Authorities” – the case law which ultimately determines what room for manoeuvre…
-
Post Office Trial secret email update 3 Dec
Back in the saddle Morning secret emailers. I missed being in court last week. It’s funny what you get used to. Today is Day 12 of what will be a 15 day trial. In terms of scale, I have it on good authority it is the largest civil trial happening in the UK right now.…
-
What is the CCRC doing?
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court In 2015, the Criminal Cases Review Commission got interested in the number of Subpostmasters who had been given criminal convictions after being charged by the Post Office’s own prosecutors on the basis of computer evidence. We know they are looking at the convictions…
-
Post Office Trial secret email update 1 Dec
Well… has it? Pinch, punch… A super-quick secret email this morning to let you know that the Daily Mail piece I mentioned a couple of times has gone in (see photo above). It’s a two-pager and it might get some attention. Antonia Hoyle is a class act and I apologise for missing her byline off…
-
Post Office Trial secret email update 29 November
Them links Morning secret emailers! As you hopefully know, the trial only sat for one day this week. I had planned to spend the downtime writing, uploading, indexing and formatting the various documents I have received over the last three weeks, but then I got asked to do a special project for ITV News, which…
-
Day 11 write-up: The joy of text
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court This is a summary of Day 11’s events in Bates and others v Post Office at the Rolls Building. For the blow-by-blow live tweets, formatted for your easy-reading pleasure, click here. I did not expect to be addressing the court myself this morning,…
-
Day 11 – live tweets
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Here are today’s 144 tweets from Day 11 of Bates and others v Post Office at the High Court adjusted for legibility and formatting. Please remember they paraphrase what was said. Nothing is a direct quote unless it is in direct quotes. You…
-
Post Office Trial FINAL Extra Blimmin’ Secret Email Update 26 November! Grrr….
Third time lucky Try this. A list of the Common Issues in this Common Issues trial, if you’ve forgotten: https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2018/2698.html It apparently didn’t like the fact I was linking direct to a .pdf file rather than the .html version, despite the fact it was coming up fine on my Mac. a) thanks to all who…
-
Post Office Trial extra secret email update 26 November
Now with added fixed link Oops, sorry. The link below in this morning’s email did not appear to work, but it should if you click it now, or click here. If it doesn’t work this time then try copying and pasting it into your browser. What are the Common Issues, then? The list of the…
-
Post Office Trial secret email update 26 November
So what exactly are the common issues? Hey secret emailers! [*whispers*] I’m on a busy commuter train so I better keep it down… I was feeling a bit bedraggled by the end of last week, and my noble intentions to get up bright and early on Friday morning and knock off a secret email, reorder…