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THE POST OFFICE GROUP LITIGATION
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION
BEFORE THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE FRASER
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UPON the making of an order following a Case Management Conference on 22 I
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Variationadjourned generally with liberty, to Stage-2 Disclosure (Formatted: No underline, English (United States) )
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Stage 3 Disclosure: Horizon Issues Trial — further disclosure
42.___By 4pm on 1 June 2018, the Defendant shall disclose and make
available for inspection the electronic documents set out in
Schedule 1 to this Order for the purposes of the Horizon Issues
Trial.
5.3._The above disclosure shall be provided following a reasonable and
proportionate search for the said documents in Schedule 1. Pest
QfficeThe Defendant shall, where necessary, use reasonable
endeavours to obtain these documents from Fujitsu or ATOS where
appropriate.
64. By 4 July 2018, -the Claimants shall disclose the documents upon
which they intend to rely at Horizon Issues trial.
Further Disclosure ~ Horizon Issues Trial
%5.__In the event that the parties are unable to reach agreement in
response to any further request made in accordance with paragraph
8 of the Second CMC Order within 14 days of the making of that
request, either party has liberty to restore the CMC on the first open
date thereafter for the purpose of considering directions for further
disclosure in relation to the Horizon Issues trial.
Inspection of Fujitsu systems
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8.6. By 4 May15 June 2018, the Defendant shall use reasonable endeavours.
to arrange for the Claimants’ IT expert, Jason Coyne, to be given 2 days
access to inspect at the offices of Fujitsu in Bracknell the systems known as
(i) Peak {and (ii) TFS}. The Defendant shall use its reasonable endeavors
to accommodate any reasonable requests for further days of access to
inspect those systems.
Z.__The parties shall seek to agree arrangements for such further access to
Horizon and Fujitsu's systems as the parties’ IT experts may reasonably
require in order to prepare their reports and joint statements.
Information requests
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8.__Kither partyWithout prejudice to parties’ IT experts’ right to request
directions at any time pursuant to CPR 1.35.14 referred to in the
paragraph 13 of the Third CMC Order, in the event that either party.
serves a written request for information in accordance with CPR
1.35.9, the party upon whom the request is served shall, as soon as
practicable and in any event within 21 days of service of the request,
file and serve one or more documents recording the information
requested that it accepts it is to provide, So that this information is
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11.9._The parties shalll have liberty to apply to restore the CMC to seek __—~{ Formatted: No underiine 5}
orders in relation to any requests not wholly accepted by the other
party and / or to seek extensions of time in relation to the deadline
provided for in paragraph 44-below:10 above in relation to any _—{ Formatted: No underine }
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10. _In respect of the Horizon Issues, the parties shall file and serve
witness statements of any witnesses of fact upon whose evidence
they wish to rely, by 4pm on 20 July 201
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Variations to Third CMC Order - IT Experts
43-11. Paragraphs 15 and 16 of the Third CMC Order shall be varied, as
follows: -
a. The date in paragraph 15 of the Third CMC Order (service
by the Claimants of a provisional / outline document in
relation to Horizon Issues), shall be varied to 4pm on 4 July
2018; and
b. The date in paragraph 16 of the Third CMC Order (parties’
IT experts to produce first joint statement) shall be varied to
4pm on 17 August 2018
44-12. Defined terms in previous orders shall have the same meaning in
this Order.
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15.13._The parties shall have liberty to apply in respect of any provision in
this Order.
46.14. The costs of this Order shall be Common Costs in the case.
Dated this April/May 2018
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