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2019
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Going Postal
Evening all I have written up what happened this afternoon, posted up the transcript and posted up the recusal application. Do have a look at the links below. I realise many of you are stunned by what has happened today. We are going to have a gap in the trial proceedings now. One lawyer thought…
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Horizon trial stopped with immediate effect
Wowsers. The trial has been stopped. An application has been made to recuse the judge from the trial and all future trials in this litigation on the grounds of bias. This is the story as it unfolded through my tweets (worth reading for the revelations in the morning too) This is the Post Office’s rationale…
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Horizon trial secret email – 21 March
Not particularly engaged Hello secret emailers I am so frustrated Kim and I didn’t manage to get a report to you yesterday. Court days tend to be 13 hour days for me, and trying to train someone up to use all the emailing, blogging and tweeting platforms was stressful. We made one slip whilst I…
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Horizon trial – Day 7 – A not uncontroversial project
Hi all Apologies for the late delivery. We’ve had major technical problems. Here is the transcript of today’s trial Here are Torstein Godeseth’s 3 (three) witness statements. Here is Andy Dunks’ witness statement Here is David Johnson’s witness statement. Here are the live tweets from this morning Here are the live tweets from this afternoon…
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Horizon trial 20 March secret email
Into the Horizone G’ mornin’ My daughter decided to get up at 5am today to do some revision. She thought playing Eminem very loudly would help. Our bedroom is directly above our daughter’s. What a time to be alive/awake. Please have a look at last night’s secret email for all the links to all yesterday’s…
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Horizon trial day 6 – the £5000 question
Good evening. It is late, I am tired and the action starts again very soon after a short lie down for before breakfast. So for that reason I will keep things brief. Here are your links! Today’s write up – the £5000 question Today’s transcript Dawn Phillips witness statement Paul Smith’s witness statement Tracy Mathers’…
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Horizon trial 19 March secret email – Miscarriages of Justice
Into the Horizone Good morning secret emailers I had just about run out of gas yesterday evening when a secret emailer contacted and me and noted I hadn’t written anything about what she considered the biggest revelation of the day. She was completely right. In my defence I did tweet it when it came up,…
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Horizon trial day 5 – Into the Horizone
Okay – the blog post review of today’s events is up! Into the Horizone The (very readable) transcript is up! The morning’s tweets are here! The après midi tweetisaussons are here… And I’m not going to spend the remaining part of my evening scanning in Angela van den Bogerd’s witness statement because they refuse to…
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Horizon trial secret email 18 March – Angela van den Bogerd
Morning Angela van den Bogerd is being cross-examined in court today. On Friday the judge ruled of Mrs van den Bogerd’s evidence in the Common Issues trial: “she did not give me frank evidence, and sought to obfuscate matters, and mislead me.” He goes on to spell out how. Misleading a judge on oath in…
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Horizon trial secret email 16 March – The Post Office witnesses
Hello all I’m doing a close reading of the judgment and posting up choice chunks on the postofficetrial.com I would urge you to have a look at Part 3 of this series, which is about the Post Office witnesses, particularly Angela van den Bogerd, a Post Office director. The judge has ruled that he will…