plus: Suppressing evidence the PO way

Good morning!

Please find below the links to two extensive write-ups of yesterday’s evidence:

Lord Grabiner KC – Never mind the “bollox”. A person who knows him wrote to tell me Grabiner “doesn’t do humility”. He certainly didn’t yesterday. Here’s the review of his evidence.

Anthony de Garr Robinson’s Jenkins problem: when suppressing evidence is not suppressing evidence. Yesterday morning’s witness presented himself as a mere victim of lucrative circumstance.

And as a bonus, here is a letter from the Post Office refusing to give me the information I wanted on Grabiner and Neuberger’s fee notes for their recusal advices.

Other information of note

The Solicitors Regulation Authority appears to have started formal disciplinary proceedings against various solicitors caught up in the Post Office scandal.

Also I forgot to put in yesterday’s newsletter – a piece Sunday’s Observer on how Paula Vennells shaped the current Archbishop of Canterbury’s thinking. Amazing.

ITV have commissioned a follow-up documentary to their hit drama called Mr Bates vs The Post Office: The Impact, which will reveal how the series has affected the lives of the Subpostmasters it featured, including Jo Hamilton, Jess Uppal, Noel Thomas and Alan Bates.

Today at the Inquiry

Today’s inquiry hearing features evidence from Tom Beezer from Womble Bond Dickinson (Post Office civil litigation solicitors) and Matthew Lenton, a document manager from Fujitsu. I am going to catch up with the former now, but won’t be live tweeting either.

I will be back at the Inquiry tomorrow for two full days of Andy Parsons – Chief Womble, or at least, Chief Post Office Womble – a man who has almost single-handedly extracted tens of millions of pounds of fees from the Post Office whilst encouraging a truly horrible legal strategy against its Subpostmasters.

Take care!

Nick