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2019
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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…
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The NFSP’s latest wheeze
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Comedy Subpostmaster “union” the National Federation of Subpostmasters has revealed its latest wheeze to Better Retailing magazine. According to an article published on 2 Jan, the NFSP (which is funded by, and therefore effectively a department of, the Post Office) has recruited 15…
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Secret email urgent request: thanks
Morning secret emailers. Thanks very much to everyone who responded to my request wrt to being prepared to be interviewed. I am sorry I haven’t had a chance to personally acknowledge everyone who applied. I have passed on a list to my colleagues in broadcast media who are getting interested in this trial ahead of…
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Post Office stops “horrified” MP from talking to staff
Reporting the class action against the Post Office at the High Court Amazing scenes in parliament yesterday where the slow decline of Crown post offices was debated by MPs. The debate was called by Wigan’s Lisa Nandy, who started with this extraordinary tale:”I was quite horrified at what happened last month when I went to…
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Secret email urgent request
Hello secret emailers! I was today alerted to the possibility that two, possibly three TV channels interested in doing some pre-filming in advance of Judgment Day later this month. If you are a claimant and you are happy to be filmed telling the story of what happened to you, please hit reply to this email…