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Post Office Trial secret email update 13 November
Making plans Hello secret emailers I am on the train heading towards Waterloo. From there it’s a short-ish walk over Waterloo Bridge and probably along Embankment cutting up Exeter Street onto the Strand, Fleet Street, up Fetter Lane and into Rolls Buildings for Day 4 of the Post Office Trial. This morning before breakfast I…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 12 November
What do you think of it so far? Hello emailers If you are a journalist reading this, could I point you toward the piece I wrote this morning before court started. (Read it here) Two documents which, if we had seen them almost certainly would have changed the complexion of the Panorama I had a…
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Day 2 – Pam Stubbs and Mohammad Sabir
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Although the courtroom was busier than its been since the trial started, with a large number of former Subpostmasters and observers from the Post Office, there were only two journalists present, a deeply unwell Karl Flinders from Computer Weekly and meself. I spent…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 11 November
Are we all ready for week 2? Hi there secret emailers Forgive the radio silence on Friday – I had a job which was nothing to do with the trial to complete. If I am offered jobs on days during this trial when the court isn’t sitting, I might take them, in order to make…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 8 November
Alan Bates day in court Hello friends. Quite an odd one today – it should have been more exciting than it was, but there was no sense of occasion. Finally, the man who has campaigned against the Post Office and gathered so many similarly disaffected people around him, worked for years for very little recompense…
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Post Office Trial – Day 2 – Alan Bates and Pam Stubbs take the stand
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Fifteen years after his sacking, Alan Bates, former postmaster of Craig-y-Don Post Office in Llandudno, North Wales, had his day in court. Alan was there to be cross-examined on his evidence as one of the Lead Claimants to the Common Issues trial, which…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 7 November
It’s all downhill from here First of all – an apology. I will not be sending you this many emails in one day again. I felt I should try to get an email out after the morning session which was frankly a complete nightmare as I was starving and I only had one hour to…
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Post Office Trial – Day 1 – summary
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court It’s very difficult to try to even understand, let alone explain what sort of day this must have been for the former Subpostmasters who turned up to court today. Some are pictured above. I reckon twelve made it in total. Nigel and Sue…
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Post Office Trial – Day 1 – afternoon session tweets
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Here are the tweets I wrote this afternoon between 2pm and 4.30pm from Court 26 of the Rolls Building, tidied up as appropriate. NB: SPMC = Subpostmasters’ Contract SPMR = Subpostmaster PO = Post Office QC = Queen’s Counsel (ie a pretty decent…
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Post Office Trial – Day 1 – morning session tweets
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Here’s what I tweeted as it happened in court between 10.30am and 1pm today tidied up for legibility. Please do follow me on twitter if you can @nickwallis: #postofficetrial – Patrick Green QC opens for the claimants. Judge interrupts to note there has…