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2019
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Third trial news: how much?
Good afternoon secret emailers Some third trial news: it will be purely about quantum. Quantum is defined as “a required or allowed amount, especially an amount of money legally payable in damages.” It seems that we are going to spend March watching the parties argue about the value that should be put on alleged wrongs…
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Grounds of Appeal fully fisked
Hello secret emailers I’ve had a productive day reading and writing up the grounds of appeal and skeleton argument from the Post Office which has been lodged at the Court of Appeal. The Post Office are trying to appeal the judgment of the Common Issues trial. Read my fisking of the documents here. Read the…
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Branch sales targets
Morning secret emailers! Hope you had a grand weekend. Mine was spent watching my daughter give a final year performance at her primary school as Mrs Banks in Mary Poppins, followed by a family bbq for my parents’ joint birthdays. I am feeling happy and fat. I’ve cleared today down for all things Post Office.…
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The NFSP: who’s fooling who?
Quick update Hello there secret emailers Sorry for the radio silence – I’ve had a manic period at work recently and have been unable to dedicate much time to Post Office-related matters. Apologies if I haven’t been able to respond to anything you’ve communicated to me in recent weeks. I have, however, found a moment…
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Bates v Post Office: “There will be at least three more trials”
Not the headline I expected to be writing after going through the Reasons for the High Court refusing the Post Office’s application to appeal the Common Issues (first) trial judgment. But it’s there on the final page, in the final paragraph. You can read my fisking of the Refusal here and you can read the…
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Horizon trial: all over bar the judgment
Horizon trial: no more coconuts Bon soir secret emailers So that’s the Horizon (second) trial done and dusted. The biggest headline of the day is that the third trial has been shifted to 2 March 2020 because both parties agree there isn’t enough time between now and November to prepare for it. Read through the…
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Horizon trial: Where’s Wally?
Hello It’s very late so I won’t add much to today’s report, which you can find here. The transcript came very late today, but you can find it here. The claimants’ written closing submissions are here. For completeness, you can read a beautifully formatted thread of today’s live tweets here. And if you have the…
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Claimants closing submissions today
Hello all The last two days of the Horizon trial are today and tomorrow. It began in March and was knocked off course by the Post Office’s attempt to have the judge recused. There’s been a lot of water under the bridge since then, but in concrete terms, very little seems to have changed. One…
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Meeting the minister
Sorry to send out two secret emails on a non-court day, but for those of you who aren’t on twitter (which I suspect is a majority of secret emailers), you may have missed a couple of things I posted today on www.postofficetrial.com The first is a suitably breathless account of my first experience of meeting…
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Kelly Tolhurst: today in parliament
Hello secret emailers I’m off to Portcullis House today, powered entirely by your donations. I’m spending the morning in the Thatcher Room finding out if the BEIS Select Committee is going to ask Kelly Tolhurst (the Postal Services Minister – pictured above) any questions about the Bates and others v Post Office group litigation and…