Paula Vennells was done the other week, the Post Office Inquiry is now questioning associates and others - thread 3

[nauticant]

A continuation of this thread:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5081592-paula-vennels-being-questioned-at-the-post-office-inquiry-followed-by-others-thread-2

When the hearings are going on, live-streaming can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/@postofficehorizonitinquiry947/featured

All of the previous hearings can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/@postofficehorizonitinquiry947/videos

Place marking

Thanks, Nauticant.

Thanks 👍

Thanks for new thread.

Placemarking for today (and this weeks) battle of the lawyers.

This guy is very slippery 🙄

Robinson KC: I didn't see this case as involving any political issues. Purely civil litigation.

His evidence contradicts MacLeod's contemporaneous written account. It looks like he's going to weasel his way through the morning. Not a promising start.

Mr De Garr Robinson is getting on my nerves already, and he hasn't even said anything yet.

I wish he would sit up sstraight and stop swinging on his chair.

Completely run-if-the-mill litigation. Nothing unusual to see here.

Robinson was closely involved with Andrew Parsons of Bond Dickinson in his work.

Robinson trying to rush through this section. He doesn't want Jason Beer to take him to carefully through these points.

Oh it's awkward 😁

Flat denial from Robinson that there was any discussion about Gareth Jenkins.

Well, blow me down. He put his finger on pretty much all the relevant questions within a week or so. But then presumably the soft-soaping operation swung into action big-time…..

Yes, the same dissembling going on.

This might come in handy btw

Robinson said that the continual "failures" of disclosure by Post Office in the litigation was "maddening".

Is there a bottle of vodka to go with that 😁

Exactly!

I'm quickly reading Andrew Parsins responses in red and the unprofessionalism is off the scale.

Surely for an incredibly intelligent KC, the alarm bells should have been ringing for De Garr Robinson

Cheers!

There has been so much 'that was nothing to wiv me guv' in the bits I've seen from people who were/are so highly paid and allegedly intelligent. It's scary to think they can play dumb now.

Apparently, the instructions from Post Office and their solicitors led him to inadvertently mislead the court on a number of occasions and he described having to go through this, including having to grovel before the court, as being "horrifying".

After that comment he expressed doubt that the "failures" of disclosure were "errors".

Ahh, in his witness statement he blamed Fujitsu for various failings but has just admitted that this was on the basis of what Post Office and their solicitors had told him and he'd not checked this separately.

De Garr Robinson and Jason Beer are both KCs so both senior barristers. Would you know from Robinson's answers, err, err um, waffle, waffle.

His posture really is so disrespectful. Shocking under the circumstances.

For all of Robinson's weaseling, I do like his formulation: "I've been reconstructing rather than directly recollecting".