Jane

So dissatisfied with Loveholidays. They knew from June about the German hotel booking company going bankrupt they used. But you didn’t tell us. You’re paying customers. We only found out at midnight arriving at our hotel when they said there is no room for us!!!!

I’ve just read a portion of Martin Edwards testimony at the post office hearings he should be dismissed immediately

#postofficeenquiry the fact Martin Edwards and Rodric Williams are still at the Post Office and not only that but apparently promoted must be an ongoing insult to the SPMR's.

#LaughAtTrump you say? This unearthed footage from Mr. Trump’s buried 2004 SNL sketch titled “Donald Trump’s House of Wings” is sure to do the trick. It can’t be shared enough. Especially when it’s clear he’s too scared to debate VP Harris! Chicken!

Shrek the sheep got lost and lived in a cave for 6 years gets around 27kg (60 pounds) of wool removed

@JamesBlunt Maybe he’s a bit too old now for sexting. I think he’s got kids.

Slightly disappointed there weren't more sexts 🍆

@JamesBlunt Yeah great guy when you watch the program. And he’s got no mortgage 💸!! Apparently.

Guys! I’m on the fucking telly!

@stugoo17 I thought I might watch a few minutes but the KC totally skewered a wholly unreliable and inconsistent witness, who as a lawyer himself could have been expected to perform better. The responses were as rotten as POLs values. I look forward to the second series of Bates v PO

@stugoo17 Edward Henry- a pitbull in a saville row suit! Outstanding?!

On reflection, and aptly for the name of the firm he works for, Parsons is a cockwomble.#horizon #postofficescandal

Another day and more jaw-dropping emails via #PostOfficeInquiry. Can it get any worse? All these well-paid and educated Executives (including Lawyers) how can they [all] write poorly worded emails all of a sudden? #PostOfficeScandal theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

Lawyer: campaigning postmasters are “liars and criminals” postofficescandal.uk/post/post-offi… #postofficescandal #PostOfficeInquiry

#PostOfficeScandal Today at the @PostOffInquiry we are hearing from Andy Parsons of Womble Bond Dickinson (@WBD_UK ) His name has been on pretty much every legal email sent throughout this scandal from 2013 onwards. Very interesting two days of evidence coming up Tune in live on @YouTube here to watch👇 youtube.com/live/ZjkwA_FJM… #MrBatesVsThePostOffice #MrBates #MrBatesVsPostOffice #MrBatesPBS #PostOfficeInquiry

Last tweet today - a good one: Here is Womble Bond Dickinson partner Andrew Parsons's view on disclosing Horizon issues to insurers in 2013. Verbally notify "so as not to leave a paper trail... this should protect against disclosure..." Well done to Alan - a marathon session.

Today's hearing will start from 0945 with evidence from Andrew Parsons, Partner at Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP. Please use the below link to follow proceedings via YouTube 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=ZjkwA_… #PostOfficeInquiry

As expected, Andrew Parsons, solicitor at Womble Bond Dickinson, is getting a bit of a going over at the PO enquiry this AM. He is being challenged about advice to the PO not to write things down lest an obligation to disclose should later arise. Eg. he advised ..

POST OFFICE INQUIRY today makes clear that if you're looking for a crooked lawyer to act on your behalf you couldn't do better than going to WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON [International Law Firm] (...maybe ask for Andrew Parsons) #BBCNews @BBCNews #SkyNews @SkyNews #postofficeinquiry

@chrish9070 @guardian @janeecroft @PostOffInquiry @nickwallis @KateOsborneMP @marionfellows @RtHonKevanJones @premnsikka @UKHouseofLords @HouseofCommons @GouldsBlog @RosieBrock71780 Andrew Parsons called himself a “conduit”. Meaning “ a person to whom transmitting or distributing information “. No he wasn’t. He was controlling and manipulating!!! Don’t trust King Womble

#PostOfficeScandal Latest piece in the @guardian by @janeecroft on todays evidence at the @PostOffInquiry Lawyer advised Post Office to adopt ‘cold’ approach and not apologise, inquiry hears ‼️ An external lawyer advised the Post Office to remove apologies from letters sent to post office operators and “maintain a more cold, procedural approach”, a public inquiry has heard. The inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal was told that Andrew Parsons, a partner at the law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (@WBD_UK ) who advised the @PostOffice for more than seven years, wrote that apologising to the operators would be “admitting some degree of culpability”. The inquiry is examining how hundreds of individuals were pursued and prosecuted for more than a decade by the Post Office over alleged financial shortfalls in their branch accounts. It has since emerged the issues were caused by bugs in the state-owned body’s Horizon IT system. The inquiry heard that, in 2013, Parsons had reviewed drafts of letters due to be sent out by the Post Office to several branch operators. The individuals had identified financial discrepancies in their branch accounts shown on the Horizon IT system that the Post Office had agreed to correct. In an email to Post Office executives sent in June 2013, Parsons wrote: “I don’t think we should apologise in the letters. I know this sounds hard but in apologising we are admitting some degree of culpability. I think we should maintain a more cold, procedural approach to correcting what is effectively an accounting irregularity.” On Thursday, Parsons was asked by Julian Blake, counsel to the inquiry, what the problem was legally in making an apology. “Sometimes apologies can be interpreted as admissions,” Parsons told the inquiry. “I think it’s pretty common for lawyers in letters to consider whether an apology is appropriate or not. In my view, it leads people to consider there was an admission of legal fault when in fact the Post Office’s view was, yes, there had been a problem, but it had been corrected.” Parsons was also questioned by the inquiry about another email, sent in 2016, in which his law firm had urged the Post Office to “try and suppress” disclosure of a key document for “as long as possible”. The email was sent in October 2016 by a junior lawyer at Womble Bond Dickinson. Parsons agreed that he had checked her draft email and inserted a paragraph in which he spoke about “ultimately withholding a key document”. His addition read : “For now we’ll do what we can to avoid disclosure of these guidelines and try to do so in a way that looks legitimate. However, we are ultimately withholding a key document and this may attract some criticism … we’ll adopt this approach until such time as we sense the criticism is becoming serious.” Parsons told the inquiry it was a “very poorly worded email and I regret sending it”. He said the junior solicitor “had sent a draft for my approval earlier that day which did not contain this final paragraph. I responded to her adding it into her draft, though my purpose in doing so appears to have simply been to make clear what action we required from POL [Post Office Ltd] on this point.” He added there were “substantive legitimate reasons for resisting disclosure of the investigation guidelines at this early stage”. Parsons was also questioned about exchanges between himself and Rodric Williams, an internal Post Office lawyer, about possible responses to an episode of the BBC’s Panorama (@BBCPanorama ) programme in 2015 which had raised questions about the Horizon IT system. He said in the email, which was read out to the inquiry, that the Post Office could “start attacking the postmasters’ credibility by calling out Thomas, Misra and Hamilton as the liars and criminals that they are”. Parsons told the inquiry: “On reflection that language is too strong.” Read the full piece here⏬ theguardian.com/uk-news/articl… #MrBatesVsThePostOffice #MrBates #MrBatesVsPostOffice #MrBatesPBS #PostOfficeInquiry #AndrewParsons #WombleBondDickinson #WBD

@stugoo17 Andrew Parsons getting involved in Prosecution matters being clueless on this this matter. Don’t think I trust Womble Bond now . Sticking his foot in very deep waters. Silly Billy man. And he’s a Partner !!!

#PostOfficeScandal #PostOfficeInquiry #StateScandal #StateCoverUp #MrBatesVsThePostOffice We have had the dubious pleasure of Stephen Dilley & Tom Beezer of Womble Bond Dickinson giving evidence to the Inquiry. To mark the appearance and demolition of SuperWomble ANDREW PARSONS - a song .......🎶🎶🎶 Sorry! 🙏 @WBD_UK @PostOffice @GouldsBlog @innermigration @VarchasPatel @Janetsk20073533