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January 2019
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Justice delayed
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court The judge in the Post Office group litigation has told a Case Management Conference at the High Court Rolls Building today that his judgment on the Common Issues trial, which finished on Thursdau 6 December, will now not be released until the final…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 31 Jan
Today’s Case Management Conference Morning secret email friends. It’s case management conference day today. At which the forthcoming Horizon trial will be argued about and the Common Issues judgment date will be “addressed”. I am hoping we will finish (or better start) today with a clear judgment date. I’m trying to juggle work commitments to…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 30 Jan
Tomorrow’s Case Management Conference Hello secret emailers! Sorry it’s been quiet of late – I’ve been putting together a piece on a currently suspended Subpostmaster which I was hoping to publish earlier this week. There has been a development in his case so he’s asked me to hold off from publishing just yet. Frustrating for…
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Parliamentary questions
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Parliamentary questions On 24 Jan, Gill Furniss, Labour MP for Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough and Shadow Minister for Steel, Consumer Protection and Postal Services, put down two written parliamentary questions. They follow the written question put down by Lord Arbuthnot in the House…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 24 Jan
Grim testimony, indexing the blog and judgment “update” Hi secret emailers. Hope you are well. I’ve just posted up a complete horror story on the blog and sent it to you via email. It’s about a woman who was charged with false accounting by the Post Office. She overdosed and died thinking criminal charges were…
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“The horror of that whole Post Office fiasco was a major factor in her death.”
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court When I read this article in Forecourt Trader magazine, I couldn’t quite believe it. I’ve come across grim stories in the past, but this one seemed worse than most, particularly with regard to the alleged behaviour of Post Office staff on the ground.…
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Minister for Post Affairs Letter on Bates v Post Office
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Minister for Postal Affairs letter In a reply to West Tyrone MP Órfhlaith Begley’s query on behalf of a constituent, Kelly Tolhurst, the Minister for Postal Affairs at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy states the government positions on the ongoing…
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Post Office witnesses in the Common Issues trial
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Post Office witnesses Whilst I was live-tweeting the Common Issues trial from Court 26 of the High Court’s Rolls building, I would often get live feedback, either from observers in the courtroom who would buttonhole me during a break, or online from the…
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Post Office Trial secret email update 17 Jan
Transcripts online Hello secret emailers! I spent a day working on Post Office Trial admin today. Over the last nine hours I have published more than half a million words to the postofficetrial.com website and the online public document vault Scribd. More on that in a moment, but first: Judgment latest I got a note…
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Regurgitating a lie
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court The stories keep coming. All fundamentally the same but with different outcomes. This is the experience of former Subpostmaster Helen Walker: “I am one of the first-tier claimants in the Post Office Trial and wanted to share my story in an effort to…