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What a week…
Blair, Neuberger, Grabiner, Altman et al … all these big names, and we haven’t even started on Vennells and the Post Office lot. Such an extraordinary week. I’ve put together two blog posts on the legal advice the Post Office got from Brian Altman KC, Lord Grabiner and Lord Neugberger, former President of the Supreme […]
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Phase 2 Day 2 transcripts and claims Fujitsu board were unaware of Horizon problems
Hi there Just a quick one today. If you want to watch or read the conclusion to Jason Beer’s opening statement to Phase 2 of the inquiry, you can watch the youtube video here or read the transcript here. Today we will hear from the legal representatives for Subpostmasters and then, at around 4pm, the […]
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What Tony Blair knew, and why the unfit Horizon IT system was green-lit
Plus – attempts to adjourn the inquiry… Hi there I am writing this update from my desk at home, listening to the inquiry live feed on catch-up at 1.5x speed. This was a very useful option on youtube which I only found when I was covering the Depp trial earlier this year. Simply click on […]
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Inquiry preview podcast, new website, crowdfunding campaign officially launched
Same old secret email, though Hi everyone I was very rude about the sound in Inquiry Chair Sir Wyn Williams’ youtube video last week, and then I had one of those Dawning Realisations. He looked pretty good. In fact, he looked professionally lit. Turns out he was. He was professionally shot, too, and the videographers […]
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New podcast, Sir Wyn does a video, Alan Johnson on oath and Moorhead’s perfect ten
Inquiry schedule published Hi Sir Wyn has made a video Sir Wyn Williams has delivered a very helpful youtube video explaining what’s going on with the Post Office Horizon inquiry. If I had to guess, I would say it had been made on a mobile phone, with no external microphone. And I bet the internal […]
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London walks, Surrey talks and Moorhead chalks up 7 (SEVEN) blog posts on the Swift Review
…. plus: the Scottish Play(ers) Hi there Have you put the heating on yet? No. Me neither. I am currently wearing two jumpers and a hoodie and my fingers are freezing. The Swift Review Saga continues… The importance of the Swift Review has been underlined by Professor Richard Moorhead dedicating not one but seven blog […]
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Press release: Horizon Scandal Fund celebrates charitable status with substantial donation
Horizon Scandal Fund celebrates charitable status with substantial donation For immediate release – 22 September 2022 The Horizon Scandal Fund is delighted to have received registered charitable status ten months after its launch. The Fund is celebrating the occasion by formally welcoming a substantial donation made by Flora Page, one of the barristers who represented […]
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Compensation, Cuckfield and a play called False Accounts
The compensation catches Good evening Firstly here is my latest blog post on the delays to compensation for Subpostmasters. It follows on from my newsletter last week. Thanks to everyone who forwarded me information. Everything anyone sends me about any matter will be treated in the strictest confidence and never published without express permission. Sources […]
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Where’s all the (interim) money gone?
Plus: another book talk postponement Hi everyone I was contacted today by several former Subpostmasters who were claimants in Bates v Post Office. It seems 400 civil litigants who don’t have ‘complex’ cases have been apportioned the £19.5m set aside by the government as interim compensation, but 100 or so people, some of whom are […]
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Letter to the DPP
Hi everyone I hope all is well with you. I’m writing to you from a hotel terrace in sunny Budapest, overlooking the beautiful Eiffel (yes that Eiffel) designed railway station. Yesterday I had to give an introduction to the Post Office Scandal to a room full of European Vodafone lawyers. I have not been so […]