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November 2018
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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…
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Post Office Trial – Day 1 – morning session
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court The morning was given over to the JFSA’s QC Patrick Green who took the judge through the key parts of the JFSA’s skeleton arguments (which I now have and will write up later). The morning was interesting for two pieces of evidence, both…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 6 November
Trials and tribulations Evening secret emailers! How you doin’? Welcome to the kind people who, over the last 24 hours, paid £20 to join this list. This is your first Post Office Trial secret email. How exciting. I am feeling terrible, frankly, so this is not going to be a prolix loquation. I got to…
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Post Office Trial – taking down your particulars
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Ahead of tomorrow’s court action, I’ve had a read of the JFSA’s allegations and the Post Office’s defence. I think I’m the first journalist to get hold of these documents, which is hardly a scoop as they’ve been available at the High Court…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 5 November
Trials and tribulations Hi secret emailers Hope all is well with you. I spent the first part of today at the High Court chasing my application for a copy of the JFSA’s claim, the particulars of claim, the amended particulars of claim and the Post Office’s defence in the Bates v Post Office GLO you…