Post Office Horizon Inquiry: Search the Evidence

say that Sir Alan Bates has recently -- and I have not updated my witness statement, so I'd like to change Alan Bates to Sir Alan Bates. Q. Thank you. If we go over the page, please, to page say that Sir Alan Bates has recently -- and I have not updated my witness statement, so I'd like to change Alan Bates to Sir Alan Bates. Q. Thank you…

"JA clearly wanted to and now wants to get some buy in from Alan Bates and seemed genuinely disappointed 118 that the whole thing couldn't be buttoned up today. He asked whether Ron Warmington would be prepared to come back for a three-person meeting in James Arbuthnot's office. Ron Warmington of course offered to do that." Then if we go…

…if we go to page 3, please. If we scroll down a little bit, just three paragraphs from the bottom: "In regard to Alan Bates and the JFSA, whilst James Arbuthnot clearly wants Alan Bates' buy-in, he doesn't want to give Alan Bates the impression that he, Alan Bates, has a power of veto over who carries out the review, its scope and how it…

ur overriding duty was, in a phrase attributed to Alan Bates, to help 'the skint little people' who didn't have a voice and who had been so badly treated by 'the Post Office'." Is there an amendment that you wish to make to that paragraph? A. Yes, there is. Q. Can you tell us what it is? A. I'm delighted to say that Sir Alan Bates has rec…

…ne 2024 "In the course of our work, I increasingly felt that your overriding duty was, in a phrase attributed to Alan Bates, to help 'the skint little people' who didn't have a voice and who had been so badly treated by 'the Post Office'." Is there an amendment that you wish to make to that paragraph? A. Yes, there is. Q. Can you tell us…

mon Baker to you, Alwen Lyons and Lesley Sewell. This refers to a letter from James Arbuthnot to Alan Bates, and he says: "The key points to me in the letter from [James (18) Pages 69 - 72 The Post Office Arbuthnot] to Alan Bates are: "His suggestion that Second Sight focus their efforts on the two best MP cases. "As 'result' -- even if p…

…0065. This is another ministerial submission, new minister, from Mr Whitehead. It says as follows: "Meeting with Alan Bates [so this is another meeting with Mr Bates, Sir Alan now] at his request to discuss the JFSA's claims its members are victims of endemic flaws in Post Office's Horizon system which, over the last 10 years or so have r…

Arbuthnot] to Alan Bates are: "His suggestion that Second Sight focus their efforts on the two best MP cases. "As 'result' -- even if preliminary, by the summer. "He doesn't respond to Alan Bates' request to focus the investigation on 'systemic failures'. "He says Alan Bates' request for [Post Office] to continue to fund Kay Linnell is fo…

u take such a statement to mean Alan Bates and Kay Linnell, a forensic accountant? A. Yes. Q. Then there was a series of exchanges of correspondence between you and Alan Bates, which I'm no u take such a statement to mean Alan Bates and Kay Linnell, a forensic accountant? A. Yes. Q. Then there was a series of exchanges of correspondence b…

…first became aware of concerns raised about bugs, errors or defects with Horizon due to the campaigning work of Alan Bates and the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance. On 4 October 2012, a couple of weeks after I joined the Post Office, I attended a meeting with Paula Vennells, James Arbuthnot and Alan Bates of the JFSA in relation to th…

…at ministers could ultimately ask about these sorts of questions. And I -- when I did ask to see Mr Bates -- Sir Alan Bates to ask about these questions, no one said I couldn't. Q. So it was a matter of choice as to whether and to what extent Government got involved, rather than the law prohibiting it, correct? A. That is true. In these e…

…was the need for it. Q. Can we, please turn to POL00184392. If we start at the bottom of the page, an email from Alan Bates, now Sir Alan Bates, 20 December 2012: "Dear Mr Thomson. "So close to Christmas and with delays in the mail, I have attached a pdf of a letter to you which is self-explanatory about a forthcoming investigation into t…

…I can do this. And the first meeting that I went to, when I got there, there was about 60 people in the room and Alan Bates -- thank God for Alan Bates, he's an incredible man -- and Kay, Kay Burnell, she's -- they are both -- we owe them so much to get us to where we are now, and they asked in the room how many people had been told they…

…was the need for it. Q. Can we, please turn to POL00184392. If we start at the bottom of the page, an email from Alan Bates, now Sir Alan Bates, 20 December 2012: "Dear Mr Thomson. "So close to Christmas and with delays in the mail, I have attached a pdf of a letter to you which is

…t on my husband's health. ffice Horizon IT Inquiry 1 March 2022 there, there was about 60 people in the room and Alan Bates -- thank God for Alan Bates, he's an incredible man -- and Kay, Kay Burnell, she's -- they are both -- we owe them so much to get us to where we are now, and they asked in the room how many people had been told they…