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Aug 12 4 tweets 1 min read
Patrick Green QC, lead counsel for the claimants in Bates v Post Office has just said:

"The Review is an incredibly important document and we would have wished to have shown it to the Court if it had been available to us.”
Richard Moorhead, Professor of Law and Professional Ethics at Exeter University has read the Review and says the points made about remote access seem to be "a bit of a show stopper both for its impact on potential appeals and on the Bates v Post Office litigation...
... . Did Parker understand that Bates was run on the basis there was no remote access? It seems likely, and unless the views of Swift on remote access were strongly countered, this raises a significant question over the that litigation and Parker’s Chairmanship.”

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Aug 12
In 2020 the BEIS Permanent Secretary reprimanded the Post Office chairman Tim Parker for failing to disclose Jonathan Swift's report to the Post Office Board on advice from the Post Office General Counsel Jane MacLeod. Sarah Munby says: "We understand that you were advised...
... at the time by the Post Office's General Counsel that for reasons of confidentiality and preserving legal privilege the circulation of the report should be strictly controlled....
... Nevertheless, given the background of parliamentary interest, the fact that your review was commissioned by the Minister responsible for the Post Office and the potential significance of the recommendations made by Jonathan Swift QC...
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Aug 11
Holy Gimcrack! A relentless and forensic FOI campaign by @ElCShaikh has grubbed several documents of serious import. A secret Post Office review into the possibility it may have got things horribly wrong...
It's dated 8 Feb 2016 and follows the Aug 2015 Panorama...
In Sept 2016 the Postal Minister at BEIS, Baroness Neville-Rolfe writes to the incoming Post Office Chairman, Tim Parker (succeeding Alice Perkins, Jack Straw’s wife, who lasted three years. No one knows why her tenure was so short).

The letter begins “Dear Tim…
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May 23
This is the most extraordinary expert witness testimony I think I’ve ever seen.
I have just asked @HeatherDexterR1, a long-time correspondent of mine, who is an expert witness in UK courts (covering fraud, director disputes or professional negligence claims) and a member of the Expert Witness Institute, what she thought of what we just witnessed. She replied
@HeatherDexterR1 "The role of the EW is that of one to assist the court in understanding complex matters and their opinion should be given independently and not influenced by counsel or the client...
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May 23
Extraordinary evening in DC. Rain belting down. Proper loud thunder and lightning. Felt like the storm spent half an hour directly over the building. It’s back to being a lovely spring morning now. Heading to Fairfax on the Metro.
Johnny Depp is being recalled to the witness box today. This trial has five more days to go. I won’t be live tweeting it but I will watch every second, send out a daily newsletter and hopefully get enough people willing to do a daily park bench interview for my Youtube channel.
My main feeling is one of fatigue. God knows how the parties and lawyers feel. I’ve also been informed there have been problems overnight with line-cutters (queue-jumpers) outside court. It has a hashtag #justicefortheline. Of course it does.
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May 17
It’s a glorious morning here at the Fairfax County Judicial Complex. District Court 5J will soon be in session for the second day of Amber Heard’s cross-examination in the #DeppvHeard defamation trial. Thread follows.
The spectators are in court. The two parties’ legal teams have just strolled past me into court and the jurors are down the corridor to my right being quite chatty (amongst themselves, obs)
Proceedings begin at 9am eastern time.
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May 16
This was the line at Fairfax County Court for #DeppvHeard this morning at just gone 7am. There are no journalists in the main court today. People have been queuing overnight.
Court began at 9am. I had UK TV news duties to attend to regarding the first hour of evidence, and I am now catching up, whilst sitting outside court 5J with the other journalists.
You can watch the live feed either by watching the E! news youtube TV feed which shows evidence as it comes up:



OR the Law and Crime feed which mainly focuses on Depp and Heard in split screen.



#DeppvHeard
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