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Post Office Trial secret email update 25 November
Content Provider Here is the email I promised you on Friday. Apologies. Trial by media It has very kindly been brought to my attention that the Private Eye piece on the opening days of this trial is up online. Private Eye often remove their news pieces without warning, so you may want to read it…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 24 November
All you good good people Hello secret emailers – apologies for the delay in getting this to you. www.postofficetrial.com I have begun the labourious process of naming, uploading, tagging and cataloguing the court documents I have received over the last three weeks. I’ve put them on Scrib’d which then allows me to embed those documents…
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Day 10 write-up: The Long and Windy Road
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court This is a write up of Day 10’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. NB; All of the words spoken by the participants below are…
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Day 10 – live tweets
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Here are today’s 172 tweets from Day 10 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…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 22 November
OMG it’s Seema! What a surprise! The lady on the left in the photo above is Jo Hamilton, the lady on the right is Seema Misra. Their stories featured in the first ever piece I made for the BBC on this story back in 2011. Jo has been coming up regularly for this trial. Seema…
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Day 9 write-up: Paula Vennells now implicated
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court This is a write up of Day 9 – for the blow-by-blow live tweets, formatted for your easy-reading pleasure, click here. Yesterday I wrote at some length about an exchange between Patrick Green QC (for the claimant Subpostmasters) and the Post Office’s Development…
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Day 9 – live tweets
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Here are today’s live tweets from Day 9 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…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 21 November
Day 3 of Mrs AvdB How we feeling, secret emailers? Today will see the conclusion of Angela van den Bogerd’s cross-examination at the High Court Rolls Building, followed by her re-examination by the Post Office barrister. It’ll be interesting to hear what he thinks is important to clarify from the six hours plus that Mrs…
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Day 8 write-up: Oh dear
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Angela van den Bogerd, Post Office Development Director, spent the entire day under cross-examination on Day 8 of the Bates and others v Post Office group litigation common issues trial. She was answering questions put to her by Patrick Green, QC for the…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 20 November
South Western trains will not defeat me again Morning secret emailers! It’s 7.30am at the time of writing and I am at the Pret at the end of Rolls Buildings 3 hours early for the morning session of Day 8 of Bates v Post Office in Court 26. I’m not going to get caught out…