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November 2018
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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…
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Day 7 write-up: Angela van den Bogerd in the witness box
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court There were three Post Office witnesses being cross-examined in court today. 10.30am – 12 noon: Sarah Rimmer, Agent Remuneration and Expenses Manager 12.10pm – 3.20pm: John Breedon, Head of Agency Contracts Deployment 3.30pm – 4.30pm: Angela van den Bogerd, Business Improvement Director I…
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Day 7 – live tweets
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court With apologies for missing the first hour of cross-examination. Here are today’s live tweets from Day 7 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…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 19 November
No agents left With profound apologies in advance for my failure to cover or live tweet the first hour of Day 7 of Bates v Post Office. I got to the station nice and early today after hearing there were problems on the line. I wasn’t quite expecting there to be no trains whatsoever and…
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Day 6 write-up: The Post Office Speaks!
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court It is borderline pathetic that the only reason we are here is because of a campaign by a few committed individuals and ten million-plus quid which has been chucked at a bunch of undoubtedly talented lawyers. What we saw in the witness box…