There were three strands to the Post Office's defence of the broadsides launched yesterday by the appellants' QC's Tim Moloney, Sam Stein and Lisa Busch. 'one can see whether, in any given case, there was any knowledge of Horizon issues in the mind of the prosecutor that would render their decision to prosecute offensive.' Tuesday's approach warmed to the theme, arguing for 'detailed and fact specific analysis' so that: On Monday Mr Altman told the judges that adopting the broad-brush approach favoured by the appellants was wrong in law.

This week the Court of Appeal is considering 42 of the 51 Subpostmaster cases which have been referred to it by the Criminal Cases Review Commission. Mr Scott's name was revealed by Brian Altman, QC for the Post Office, who criticised the 'wholly erroneous' decision taken by Mr Scott, but sought to make clear that when other Post Office executives became aware of Mr Scott's interesting approach to his legal obligations, they quickly put in place procedures to stop anything like it happening again. His name is John Scott, and he was, at the time, the Post Office's Head of Security. Today we were told the identity of the Post Office executive who ordered the shredding of documents pertaining to problems with the Horizon IT system.

Jo Hamilton, flanked by her legal team, Tim Moloney QC (l) and Neil Hudgell, arriving at court todayĭay 2, R v Hamilton and others - Court of Appeal, Royal Courts of Justice, London

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