Jarnail Singh - Post Office Inquiry

Post Office Lawyer Jarnial Singh CUTS ACROSS Jason Beer KC as he corrects his witness statement to the Post Office Inquiry. Jason Beer KC requests multiple times that former Post Office Lawyer Jarnial Singh allows his to complete a question before delivering an answer. In addition to corrections to his statement, Sir Wyn Williams delivers Mr Singh a warning against self incrimination and confirms that he does have a lawyer at the Post Office Inquiry. The most significant correction is with his 'limited' relationship with Gareth Jenkins becoming much more substantial. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #JarnailSingh

Post Office Senior Lawyer Jarnial Singh is WITHOUT Criminal Law Experience when he joins the Post Office Criminal Law Team as he tells the Post Office Inquiry he was mainly involved in other work predominantly related to defence, although was involved in the preparation and research of some prosecutions as a legal executive before he qualified as a solicitor. Jason Beer KC analyses his CV that he attached to his witness statement and picks up the point that he says he was 'THE senior lawyer' in the criminal law team which he then clarifies meant that he was one of eight senior lawyers who reported directly to the Head of Criminal Law and the Post Office. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh says his 28 year old Private Practice 'looked better on paper' as he is quizzed on his involvement listed on an extensive-sounding conveyancing business he says he owned and ran since April 1996. Defending his CV, he suggests that it became cost-prohibitive to have liability insurance from the year 2000 and that since then he was just being 'mentored' and 'referring clients' providing a service to the community. Jarnail Singh compares his private legal practice to the hobby of stamp collecting. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

At the Post Office Inquiry, Jarnail Singh is questioned on his private practice that he lists on his CV as have ran since April 1996 leading us to ask the question if this is his only business interest and What are Jarnail Singh's Businesses? We take a look and provide a brief analysis of Jarnail Singh's private practice - J Singh Judge Solicitors Ltd and three other businesses he has been involved with as well as Bespoke Law Services that he listed he was a solicitor and director of between 2016 and 2018 following his deparature from the Post Office. #PostOffice #PostOfficeScandal #PostOfficeInquiry #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh tells the Post Office Inquiry that he 'feels the hurt and pain' caused to subpostmasters by their private prosecutions by the Post Office which he admits were miscarriages of justice. He discusses the separation of the Post Office from the Royal Mail in April 2012 and how the Post Office Criminal Law Team reduced the number of senior lawyers from 8 to 1 whilst contracting out much of the prosecution work to legal firm Cartwright King. He says the loss of support staff meant that he felt he couldn't do the job that he was supposed to and identified examples of difficulty he faced in the new restructured Post Office Criminal Law Team #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh is accused of 'generating an air of detachment' during his testimony to the Post Office Inquiry where Jason Beer KC contrasts the words he is saying now with the statement that he provided to the Post Office Inquiry. The Post Office Lawyer is keen to point out that he was part of a larger organisation and that maybe the Post Office 'wasn't capable' of handling the prosecutions of subpostmasters in hindsight. Whilst apparently keen not to blame anyone else, the one mistake he identifies and takes responsibility for is that he relied too much on what others were telling him. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh insists that 'I would have stuck to the FACTS' when testifying at the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry about his 'hurt' that he feels for subpostmasters who were wrongly prosecuted. This appears to be at odds with an email that he sent out to a wide distribution list entitled 'ATTACK ON HORIZON' where he claims that it isn't language that 'would come naturally to him' and that initially, the distribution list of was dictated to him as he didn't really know many of the recipients before going on to claim the the subject of the email was dictated to him. Whilst accepting that he dictated the email, he suggests that others specified the distribution list as well as the subject of the email and that he would have simply stuck to the FACTS of the case. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh insists 'You're Asking The WRONG Person' as counsel to the Post Office Inquiry Jason Beer KC questions Jarnail Singh about the 'horizon bashing bandwagon' email that HE sent! Whilst struggling to identify who would be the right person to ask, or indeed anyone at all, he insists that the words in the email 'don't come naturally to him' despite the fact that he admits to not only sending it but dictating it to his secretary. The central claim from Jarnail Singh that the email he sent and dictated was dictated to him is examined along with the proposed evidence he has of this. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh tells the Post Office Inquiry that the 'Horizon Bashing Bandwagon' email WASN'T my fault as he says that whilst he dictated the email to his secretary and it was sent in his name it's not the kind of language that he would use and agrees it would be 'at odds with his professional duties' to use such 'breathless' and 'emotive' language. Whilst he says Rob Wilson would have approved the email he was less inclined to name who might have dictated it to him saying that he's not at the Post Office Inquiry to 'name names'. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer 'Justified Executive Confidence' in Horizon following the prosecution of Seema Misra as he is sent a congratulatory email by the Post Office Executive team in new documents disclosed to the Post Office Inquiry. Jarnail Singh says that he was not aware, but would have expected there to be interest from Post Office Executives in the case he was helping them to prosecute but says that he isn't a very public person and didn't really like the congratulatory side of things as he characterises himself as an 'old school lawyer' with a desktop PC. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh