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Post Office cases meeting
17.00, 25 March 2013

Room N, Portcullis House

Speaking notes

e¢ Welcome everyone
« Purpose of meeting is to update MPs on how investigations are going
e¢ Chatham House Rule please — will be discussing live cases and live
investigations, easy to prejudice outcome
« Extremely important issue
e Acknowledge the very important input from the Post Office without which none of
this work would be underway
¢ Alice Perkins and the Post Office
© great deal of thanks owed to Alice Perkins
o dealt with an uncomfortable matter with honesty
© straightforward approach is a real asset
o vision and willingness to fund the investigations commendable
o letter from the Post Office
= Post Office position is that it has not been given the opportunity to
comment on what has been found thus far
= thus we must not pre-judge matters before this has occurred
= not helpful to issue press releases now, but this time will come
« Shoosmiths —- Tadge Channer and Rose Donoghue
co kept the flame alive from early on when no-one else was interested
o firm is closely associated with the issue, and continues to be so
¢ Alliance for Justice for SubPostmaster and Postmistresses — Alan Bates
© selfless work in promoting the interests of those who feel they have been
wrongly accused
«Kay Linnell — independent auditor of the investigations
o a fine second pair of eyes on the work of Second Sight
e Second Sight —- Ian Henderson and Ron Warmington
o seriously experienced forensic accountants

co impressed with what I have heard so far
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