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Eleanor Shaikh
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New Books on the Post Office Scandal Out This Week
Former Subpostmaster Pete Murray and current Professor Richard Moorhead have both written two very different books relating to the Post Office scandal. They are out this week. The Making and Breaking of a Subpostmaster I first spoke to Pete Murray whilst the Bates v Post Office group litigation was active. Pete had taken on the…
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Project Brisbane to Remain Secret
Eleanor Shaikh has lost her court bid to have a single line in a government email unredacted. The line related to a top secret Post Office report called Project Brisbane. The Post Office has maintained that Brisbane and everything related to it is “legally privileged”, which means it is exempt from Freedom of Information (FOI)…
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The Battle for Brisbane
The Post Office has claimed it should not make public crucial documents written six years ago, partly on the grounds doing so could compromise the organisation’s capacity to receive a fair trial, should it ever face criminal proceedings over the Horizon IT scandal. Project Brisbane is a top-secret exercise conducted in 2020 by the Post…
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More info is revealed about Project Brisbane
I am once more grateful to Eleanor Shaikh and Matthew Somerville for bringing important information into the public domain. Matthew runs the “Dracos” Inquiry website which mirrors the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry website whilst making every document on it searchable. There is a manual element to Matthew’s work, which involves scanning the Inquiry website…
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Project Brisbane – a report the Post Office is desperate to keep secret
In January 2022 the researcher Eleanor Shaikh was poring over some written evidence submitted by the Business Department (then known as BEIS) to the Business Select Committee in March 2020. In an annex to the evidence, there was a timeline. One line of the timeline read: “September 2015: The Post Office Minister commissions POL’s new…
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Ed Henry KC: “You couldn’t contrive a more ridiculous state of affairs”
In the course of preparing for a recent Sunday Times piece into the latest on the Post Office disaster, I spoke to a number of people. For reasons of space, many of their contributions were edited down to a couple of short quotes, or they simply didn’t make it into the piece at all. Nonetheless,…
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False Accounts – London run review by Eleanor Shaikh
If she didn’t have her hands full fisking the inquiry evidence of a former Post Office executive or writing a mammoth document on the disastrous origins of the Horizon IT system, Eleanor Shaikh would make a fine theatre reviewer. Here’s her take on the London production of False Accounts: “Only a hardened dramatist would consider…
