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23 Mar, 4 tweets, 3 min read
There are lots of top journalists following the Post Office Horizon scandal - including @TomWitherow from the Daily Mail, @Karlfl from Computer Weekly and @tonyrcollins from Campaign4Change. Insight, new lines, context, interviews. Recommended following.
@TomWitherow @Karlfl @tonyrcollins There’s also @samiotobin from the Press Association who has to be across about a million court stories at once, but still found to time to address the judges on our behalf yesterday to get skeleton arguments released to the press (which allowed me the chance to piggy-back...
… his request by leaping up and asking for the Clarke advices, which the judges were happy to nod through). I now have both Clarke Advices.
Live-tweeting from Day 2 of the Court of Appeal hearing will continue at 10.30am today.

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24 Mar
Post Office annual report and accounts just dropped - this is the delayed 2019/2020 accounts which is when the Post Office were throwing the kitchen sink at the High Court litigation - the numbers and comments should be interesting:

corporate.postoffice.co.uk/secure-corpora…
"we recorded a statutory loss of £307 million, largely because of the cost of settling the Postmaster litigation in December 2019 and the related legal costs; £153 million we have allocated towards the Historical Shortfall Scheme settlements...
… Chief Executive Officer Nick Read said: “Maximising the potential of Postmasters should be the priority and we should behave accordingly. Sadly, this has not always been the case...
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24 Mar
Good morning and welcome to Day 3 of the Court of Appeal hearing into whether 42 former Subpostmasters should have their convictions quashed after being criminalised by the Post Office. This will be a tweet thread of proceedings, which start at 10.30am. Some housekeeping... Image
… Everything I tweet from court is a summary and/or paraphrase of what is being said. Nothing is a direct quote unless it is in “direct quotes”.

We have had two explosive days in court so far. On Monday we found out that the Post Office had ordered documents...
… pertaining to discussions about the reliability of Horizon (the Post Office IT system, evidence from which was used to prosecute Subpostmasters) should be shredded:

postofficetrial.com/2021/03/post-o…

Yesterday (Tuesday) we found out who ordered the shredding - it was the Post Office’s
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23 Mar
Welcome to Day 2 of R v Hamilton et al at the Court of Appeal. 42 former Subpostmasters hope to have their criminal convictions overturned. Here is Ms Hamilton arriving at the RCJ this morning flanked by her barrister Tim Moloney QC (l) and her solicitor, Neil Hudgell.

(thread)
Proceedings are due to start at 10.30am. Brian Altman QC will be speaking for the Post Office.

The clerk has informed us we will be observing the minute silence at noon in memory of the victims of COVID-19.
Seema Misra is in court today, as is Declan Salter, the new(ish) Post Office Director specifically charged with dealing with the fallout from this scandal. Neil Hudgell has taken his place in the gallery. Sam Tobin from the Press Association has to deal...
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22 Mar
[SS taking us to an interview transcript from the hearing bundle in which an investigator is talking to an SPM who is trying to explain losses at her branch. She is talking about how she couldn’t find the source of her loss and she tried desperately to do so and didn’t know...
… the source. Didn’t know whether it was her mistake, theft by her assistants etc etc]

[SS reads from more transcripts - it is a desperate tale of a poor SPM putting her own money into the system to try to get it to balance]
[SS making the point that SPMs had no idea what was happening in their PO despite trying v hard to find out]

SS those issues were brought to the attention of MPs - refers to various letters from MPs to the PO. The issues and themes were broiught to the attn of the PO...
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22 Mar
TM there is little evidence of any investigation into Horizon in many of these cases - they had no meaningful way of defending themselves which caused unmitigated prejudice. We say there is no reason for the court to doubt those concessions [by the PO].
[TM turns to G2]
TM the PO concedes in 39 cases there was abuse of process. in the context where the respondent [PO] concedes they could not have a fair trail. Some saw their marriages break up, some suffered bankruptcy and some are dead having gone to their graves with their previous...
… convictions extant.

There has been extensive damage to these people of previous good character caused by unfair recovery of alleged debt and unfair trials on behalf of the respoindent to assess or address the defects in that software and the implication for so many...
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22 Mar
Welcome to Court 4 of the Royal Courts of Justice for the first day of a 4 day hearing during which 42 former Subpostmasters are hoping to have their criminal convictions quahed. This will be a live-tweet thread of proceedings, due to start in 2 minutes…
#PostOfficeScandal
… I am one of two people from the media allowed in the main court. Sam Tobin from the Press Association is sitting on the press benches and I know Tom Witherow from the Daily Mail is trying to get in….
… So far this morning I think have bumped into Tracy Felstead, Jo Hamilton, Seema Misra, Janet Skinner and Nicki Arch - all campaigning Subpostmasters. It’s very strange as they are all here on their own - no partners or supporters have been allowed due to social distancing...
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