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Nick Wallis
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Here’s the @PostOffice's take on their attempt to boot the judge off the litigation:

"We have reflected in great depth on the proceedings and detailed judgment from the first trial and will continue to consider all options….
“… As part of this, we have made an application today for the sitting Judge to be recused from the ongoing and upcoming trials. We are acutely aware of the significance of this application...
“… We will continue with our programme to improve the way we work with postmasters and are urgently considering how we can accelerate this work and address the criticisms about our operations raised in the judgment. We recognise that we must always continue to do better...
“… in the interests of our customers and postmasters. We continue to believe that the group litigation remains the best opportunity to resolve long-standing issues…"
“… in order to ensure a stable and sustainable Post Office network for the benefit of the communities who rely on our services every single day.”

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Nick Wallis
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This application does several things (even if it is unsuccessful), all of which favour the @PostOffice

1) It buys them time to work out what their strategy is going to be in the face of the first judgment.

2) It massively ramps up the cost for the claimants.

3) It ensures...
@PostOffice … that the revelations which came out today will be buried.

4) that any eventual settlement in favour of the claimants will be less than it might have been before today. Why?
@PostOffice The defendants, being owned by the state, are funded by the state. We are effectively funding this litigation.

The claimants are funded by a group who, if successful will want a return on what, let’s face it, is a very risky and very large investment.
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Nick Wallis
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Good morning from court 26 of the High Court’s Rolls Building for Day 7 of the Horizon trial, part of the Bates v Post Office group litigation. Mr Godeseth from Fujitsu is being cross-examined in the witness box.
Just a reminder - everything I tweet is a summary and paraphrases what is happening in court. Nothing is a direct quote unless it is in “direct quotes"
Torstein Godeseth (TG) is the Horizon Chief Architect at Fujitsu. He is being cross-examined by Patrick Green QC (PG) for the claimants. They are discussing changing things in Horizon’s message store.
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We’re back for the afternoon session of Day 7 of the Horizon trial - part of the Bates v Post Office litigation.
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Mr Godeseth from Fujitsu continues to being cross-examined.
Follow this thread for live tweets from court.

Anything tweeted is a summary and paraphrase of what is happening in court. Nothing is a direct quote unless it is in “direct quotes"
Patrick Green QC (PG) for the claimants is cross-examining Torstein Godeseth (TG)

they are discussing the early days of Horizon. It was a difficult birth back in the late 90s. DSS and Post Office were clients. DSS pulled out.
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