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Breaking silence...
More key revelations from the Inquiry and some unanswered questions. This time from a former criminal Court of Appeal judge
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"It should be buried at any cost this court case"
Phase 5 and 6 started yesterday. The first of many revelations to catch my eye...
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Anatomy of a "cover-up"? II
Yesterday’s post set out how secret tapes appear to show senior actors within the Post Office being told that: (1) what is called remote access to their…
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Anatomy of a "Cover-Up"?
Covert Post Office Tapes tell us about one beginning for what is colloquially known as the cover-up stage. What role did lawyers play in this? Is…
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March 2024

Postmasters punished by an adversarial legal culture
What does the PO Scandal tell us about the design and culture of our legal system?
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The First Flat Earther vs Lee Castleton
We take a deep dive into the strategy behind the case that ruined Lee Castleton and its implications. Is a court system that posits an overriding…
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The case for the prosecution
What does a 'profoundly sorry' PO do to round off Phase 4? Often, it blames others and it roundly hacks off the Inquiry Chair.
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February 2024

Are ethics problems continuing
At the end of a speech today on general ethics lessons from PO Scandal I made two new points worth a wider airing...
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Lawyers Ethics and the Post Office Scandal
My speech to the Westminster Legal Policy Forum rehearses the main concerns about lawyer involvement spanning over 20 years and reaching to the present…
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The Scottish Question
Important submissions about Scotland made at the end of Phase 4 of the Post Office Inquiry
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With respect
There are two interesting omissions from the Post Office Inquiry's latest list of witnesses: Lord Neuberger and Sir Jonathan Swift
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Without prejudice and also integrity?
The Chairman of the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board (HCAB, on which I sit) had cause to write to the Post Office CEO
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