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From: Rodric WilliamsI
Sent: Tue 24/05/2016 5:
To: John Davittf
Subject: RE: Post Office Limited - Update and Request for Further Advice
Thanks John.
Rather than us call Jonathan, could you be so good as to set up a conference call for us all to dial into? Contrary to my
initial impression, we’re going to be at different sites.
Thanks again, Rodric
From: John Davitt f
Sent: 24 May 2016 16:44
To: Rodric Williams
Subject: RE: Post Office Limited - Update and Request for Further Advice
Thanks Rodric, that is in the diary.
John
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Sent: 24 May 2016
To: John Davitt
Subject: RE: Post Office Limited ~ Update and Request for Further Advice
Thanks John — that’s great and much appreciated.
We'll call Jonathan?
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Sent: 24 May 2016 15:11
To: Rodric Williams
Subject: RE: Post Office Limited - Update and Request for Further Advice
Hi Rodric,
We can go for 12pm on Friday, will you call us?
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Chris should be able to make it but if his conference over runs he may be late etc.
Regards,
John
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Sent: 24 May 2016 11:39
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Subject: RE: Post Office Limite
Thanks John.
Could we a call at lpm on Friday?
Kind regards, Rodric
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Sent: 24 May 2016 09:55
To: Rodric Williams
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Subject: RE: Post Office Limited - Update and Request for Further Advice
Hi Rodric,
Many thanks for your e-mail.
Would you be available for a call something on Friday afternoon for a call with Jonathan and Chris?
Regards,
John
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Subject: Post Office Limited - Update and Request for Further Advice
Jonathan,
POL has been progressing the 8 recommendations you made in your January 2016 Chairman’s report concerning the
further steps that POL might reasonably take in respect of the SPMR cases. With respect to the recommendations
concerning Horizon (recommendations 3, 4 and 5) and POL’s suspense accounts (recommendation 8), Deloitte LLP has
scoped work that could be taken to address the recommendations, and has provided to POL a range of procedures
which could be performed.
POL is now considering the further instructions it could provide to Deloitte. Influencing these considerations is that on
11 April 2016, court proceedings were started against POL when 91 Claimants issued a Claim Form in the High Court
of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division (copy attached). The Claim Form has not been served (it was provided to us for
information only), and is not currently supported by a Statement of Case. It has however been supplemented by a
letter dated 28 April 2016 from the Claimants solicitors, Freeths LLP, purportedly sent pursuant to the Practice
Direction on Pre-Action Conduct. The letter is long (53 pages) and references (among others) issues with Horizon and
POL’s suspense accounts which overlap your recommendations 3, 4, 5 and 8, as well as issues with Post Office’s
prosecution practices (overlapping your recommendation 1) and branch support systems (overlapping your
recommendation 7).
When you first considered this matter for POL’s Chairman, the SPMRs had been advancing their concerns through
extrajudicial means, e.g. through MPs and in the media. Now that POL has been sued, is it reasonable for POL to
address any further steps it might reasonably take in respect of the SPMR cases through the proceedings, rather than
in response to your report and recommendations?
I appreciate you may not have given this matter much thought over the past few months, so we would be happy to
discuss this with you further by telephone in the first instance. I have copied John Davitt to help with the
arrangements if you would find that more convenient.
With thanks and kind regards,
Rodric
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