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October 2020
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Interview with the journalist who broke the Post Office Horizon scandal
Rebecca Thomson speaks Hi Being in isolation give you a chance to do some literal and metaphorical housekeeping. The hoovering starts tomorrow! The following is an example of the latter. Four years ago I contacted Rebecca Thomson, the journalist who broke the Post Office Horizon story for Computer Weekly in 2009. She worked under the…
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Govt minister queries Paula Vennells’ fitness to chair NHS Trust
Lord Callanan weighs in Morning campers It’s nice to have an exclusive every now and then. I have posted on my blog the contents of a letter from Lord Callanan, the business minister in the Lords, to Lord Bethell at the department for health. You can read the details, context and actual letter here. Reading…
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Media representations over evidence made to Post Office Horizon inquiry
Do you mind if we have a look, your honour? Hello! It’s Monday, I’m on Day 12 of isolation, but the morning was rather glorious and autumnal, and there are worse ways to start the day than by posting up another piece about access to evidence at the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry. The inquiry’s…
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Remember, remember 18 November
CoA showdown: booked in Hello everyone Thanks to everyone who has been in touch re the COVID situation in our house. Unfortunately Child 1’s test came back positive, so we are all isolating for a bit. She is isolating from us, too, which means spending around 22 hours a day in her room. Not great,…
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The Horizon IT inquiry’s transparency problem
Evidence will not be published Hello everyone Child 1 developed a cough on Thursday so we went into isolation as a family. She was tested on Friday and we have now been waiting 46 hours for a result. I hope we don’t have to wait too much longer. On the upside, I have the opportunity…
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Post Office won’t contest 44 of 47 convictions
Ain’t that something? The Post Office will not contest 44 of the 47 convictions referred to the courts by the Criminal Cases Review Commission. For those 44, the fight for some kind of justice has just turned a massive corner. I would be very surprised they don’t now get their convictions quashed. But many a…
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Big day tomorrow
First conviction quashed? Hi all Tomorrow we will find out if the first of any Subpostmaster convictions will be quashed as the Post Office tells the Court of Appeal which (if any) of the 47 cases referred by the Criminal Cases Review Commission it will contest. It’ll be a busy day. It may or may…