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December 2018
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Paula Vennells’ CBE: update
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Paula Vennells’ CBE In a recent blog post I mentioned Paula Vennells’ CBE and the public response to it. The JFSA have now issued a statement: “The JFSA is stunned at how inappropriate it was to award a CBE to Paula Vennells, CEO…
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A claimant writes…
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Posted below is the first substantive entry on Janet Bradbury’s new blog which you can find here. Janet is one of the 550+ claimants in Bates v Post Office. It is a straightforward tale of how a good person’s life appears to have…
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Paula Vennells’ CBE
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Paula Vennells, Chief Executive of the Post Office, has been given a CBE in the New Year’s Honours List. According to the Post Office “She is being recognised for her work on diversity and inclusion at Post Office, her commitment to the social…
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Talking turkey
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court I said I would account for what I had “earned” from the Kickstarter campaign and PayPal tip jar on the www.postofficetrial.com website. It looks like this… Income: Kickstarter = £8397 Paypal tip jar = £2245.52 Total income: £10642.52 Expenditure: 18 days work at…
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CCRC delays its decision till after the first High Court judgment
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Further to my post on 1 Dec about the Criminal Cases Review Commission. They’ve sent letters to the 30-odd former Subpostmasters whose cases they are reviewing telling them they will not be making any decision about their cases at least until after the…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 21 Dec
It’s beginning to look a lot like… Hello secret emailers! Sorry I’ve been quiet of late. The day after the trial finished I went back to ITV News and I’ve been there since, working on a number of things. I have found a few hours to work on the Post Office Trial, much of it…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 11 Dec
New guest post Hello secret emailers! Just a quick one to let you know I’ve put up a guest post by Tim McCormack, a former Postmaster with strong views on the Post Office. You can read his thoughts here. I have a couple more which I’ll try to get up over the course of this…
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Day 15 write-up: Not even the end of the beginning
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Fifteen days doesn’t sound like much, but I feel like I’ve been through the wringer. Trying to synthesise and process the volumes of information which have come out of this trial is going to take weeks. I will give you a quick summary…
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Day 15 – live tweets
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Day 15 of the Post Office trial – 229 live tweets compiled below for your easy reading pleasure. You can also read them here on thread reader or read the originals here on twitter: FINAL DAY of the #postofficetrial. Follow this thread for…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 6 Dec
Lights, camera, traction And so, secret emailers, the end is near. Today is the last day of the Common Issues trial, and we go not with a bang, but five hours of Mr David Cavender QC explaining precisely why this action is really a bit of tin pot fuss about nothing and any findings the…