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Nick Wallis
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Sir Wyn Receives Privilege Waiver
If you don’t ask, you don’t get. After hearing several arguments from knowledgeable and expert legal types at his statutory inquiry’s first open hearing last week, the chair of the inquiry, Sir Wyn Williams, took the initiative. He wrote to the Post Office, the government (specifically the Business department and UKGI, its corporate arm) and…
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What Sir Humphrey Told Swinson
An enthusiastic follower of the Post Office Horizon Scandal has unearthed a document via the Business department which I am sure will be of interest to Sir Wyn Williams’ statutory inquiry. John O’Sullivan asked BEIS to send him (via the excellent whatdotheyknow.com website) any briefing documents given to Jo Swinson about Horizon when she took…
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Sir Wyn Requests Privilege Waiver
Inquiry chair writes to the Post Office, Fujitsu and government immediately after hearing Today’s hearing at Juxon House (in the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral just over the Millennium Bridge from the Tate Modern, hence the picture above) was described by Sir Wyn Williams as the first “truly open session” of the Post Office Horizon…
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Post Office Inquiry Hearing Preview
Once again, disclosure and privilege come to the fore The perennial frustration with this scandal is the Post Office and government’s jealous guarding of documents which might provide evidence of serious wrongdoing. It has taken eight years to find out the Post Office Head of Security ordered the shredding of documents in 2013. What other…
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Welcome…
The crowdfunded Post Office Trial website is being put into storage. This new website – postofficescandal.uk – will continue to report into the Post Office Horizon Scandal. Hello and welcome to the first blog post of a new website dedicated to the Post Office Horizon IT Scandal. It is an attempt to start pulling various…