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Day 13 write-up: What just happened?
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Something very weird happened today in court. I’ll set it up by saying the Mr Justice Fraser (Middle Temple) is either very good at appearing to be a very impressive human being, or he is one. He is encouraging to those who might…
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Day 13 – live tweets
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Day 13 of the Post Office trial – live tweets. You can read them below. You can read them here on thread reader or read the originals here on twitter: Day 13 of the Bates v Post Office trial at court 26 of…
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Day 12 – live tweets
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court This a completely GASH copy and paste and attempted tidy-up of my Day 12 live tweets. Do NOT trust any of the figures, they have had numbers removed in the formatting. Do not attribute any quotes, even if they are in direct quotes…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 4 Dec
Back for more Not going to lie, secret emailers, the (civil) trial of the century went through a sticky patch yesterday. Afterwards the lawyers had broad grins on their faces as they challenged me to make something of the four and a half hours of legal argument I had just experienced The only things I…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…