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 '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

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh is confronted with an email where, in providing an update to a fellow lawyer about Post Office Prosecutions, that subpostmasters were 'jumping on the passing [Horizon] bandwagon' and that their Horizon challenges will 'melt away like midnight snow' saying that to stop prosecutions of subpostmasters would look like a lack of confidence in the Fujitsu developed Horizon system that was integral to the Post Office. Trying to distance himself again from the 'Horizon bandwagon' comments he says that this wasn't his individual view but a 'team view' at the Post Office. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh #HorizonBandwagon

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh tells the Post Office Inquiry that 'I'm MORE Aggrieved Than Subpostmasters' who were wrongly prosecuted by the Post Office for Horizon shortfalls. He distances himself from 'crass comments' made in an update email that he sent claiming them not to be his words but merely an update he provided to the Post Office on behalf of Cartwright King, the legal firm who Post Office prosecutions were outsourced to. He denies any knowledge of any expert witness to testify in the cases about the Fujitsu Horizon system saying that he didn't think one had been found. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh was told by the Post Office Public Relations department that his language was 'too emotive' as he trotted out the now infamous 'Horizon bashing bandwagon' email 4 years after it was originally written in response to a request for help with a press release relating to the Seema Misra case. He is then encouraged to 'stick to the facts', which he has previously claimed that he would prefer to do despite persistently repeating that subpostmasters were 'jumping on a passing bandwagon' in relation to using Horizon issues as a defence in their prosecutions by the Post Office. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh tells the Post Office Inquiry that Scrutinising OWN Work was 'next to impossible' as he suffered with an 'unmanageable' workload as the senior lawyer within the Criminal Law Team at the Post Office. Jason Beer KC puts to Jarnail Singh that he didn't write the factual summary of Seema Misra's case as it wasn't littered with spelling and grammatical errors. Despite previously saying that he wasn't at the Post Office Inquiry to 'name names' he seems happy to identify some of the contributors to the summary and describes it as a 'team effort'. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh characterises subpostmasters claims about Horizon Bugs during their prosecutions were a 'desperate DISTRACTION technique' deployed after 'their original defences had failed'. When asked about these claims Jarnail Singh says that this was never his view and that it was a 'team effort' with 'many contributors' to the summary he provided of the Seema Misra case. He tells the Post Office Inquiry that he would have simply been too busy to write a summary of the case and admits that he 'doesn't do some things well' so would have sought input from the wider Post Office team. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh outlines the 'Top 5 Matters' in his Criminal Law Team at the Post Office in 2014 to the Post Office Inquiry including some concern about the then ongoing Second Sight report and the raising of the threshold to £20k for prosecuting subpostmasters. He mentions that he 'envisages' counter fraud intiatives and 'early intervention' marking a 'shift in Post Office prosecution policy'. So after his comments, why does there seem to have been no such substantial shift in Post Office prosecution policy until 2019 when the Post Office stopped prosecuting subpostmasters for alleged Horizon shortfalls? #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh is UNSURE if he was Head of Criminal Law at the Post Office as he drops the 'Head of Legal' into conversation. Jarnail Singh says that people might have viewed it that way as he was the only criminal lawyer before indeed suggesting that he was the Head of Criminal Law Team at the Post Office after he 'saw an opportunity' and visited Cartwright King after Rob Wilson allegedly was wanted for the role and pulled out last minute. So was Jarnail Singh the Head of Criminal Law and the Post Office? #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh is brought in on an interview request from journalist Nick Wallice for a piece on the BBC One Show in 2014 reporting on the Post Office Scandal to provide robust lines for damage control. Jarnail Singh seems to be infuriated by being hounded for answers to questions and this leads to a fiery exchange with Jason Beer KC telling him to answer the questions and that he is not in charge at the Post Office Inquiry. Post Office are suggesting a robust defence of the Horizon system is undertaken and that there should be doubt thrown on 'specialists commenting from the sidelines'. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh #BBC #BBCOne #BBCOneShow #OneShow

Post Office Lawyer DENIES His OWN 'Wild Speculation' about an unnamed subpostmaster speaking to journalist Nick Wallis as someone who had said one thing under caution and then is now 'purposefully misrepresenting the facts' in his response internally at the Post Office to an interview request from the BBC One Show. Despite Jarnail Singh sending the email and beginning it 'my comments' he completely denies writing it saying that Cartwright King would have done so. When asked why there is no email trail of this he says that it was likely a conversation. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh #BBC #BBCOne #OneShow

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh tells the Post Office Inquiry that nobody BELIEVED what we wrote as he distances himself from an email full of references to what 'I' did that he indeed sent himself describing the alleged 'dishonesty' of subpostmasters and giving the reason that 'they didn't seem to be leading luxurious lifestyles' as they were 'propping up their failing shop businesses' with the money the Post Office alleged was being stolen due to the faulty Fujitsu Horizon system. He says that the contents of the email both were and were not the view of the Criminal Law Team at the Post Office! #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh admits Jason Beer KC's suggestion that he was 'just a postbox' by being a 'point of contact' for Cartwright King after subposmaster prosecutions were handed over to them in 2012. Jarnail Singh denies having any oversight of Cartwright King despite being the only criminal lawyer at the Post Office at the time. He says that he was taken to deal with other work which Jason Beer suggests is 'Horizon fallout' after he mentions the Second Sight report as well as the mediation scheme - before later distancing himself somewhat from the much maligned subpostmaster mediation scheme aimed at satisfying demands from angered subpostmasters who had been understandably aggrieved by the allegations made against them. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh says DEFENCE Barristers kept him in check with the Post Office Prosecution Policy as he explains the monitoring in place at the Post Office to ensure that he stuck to the policy when orchestrating the prosecution of subpostmasters. He is quick to point out that as 'policy owner' he did not create, contribute to, maintain or oversee the policies - even once he became the only criminal lawyer in the Post Office following its separation from the Royal Mail Group. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh is CONFRONTED with evidence by Jason Beer KC at the Post Office Inquiry that he in fact LEAD prosecutions against subpostmasters throughout the period that he says all responsibility was handed over to legal firm Cartwright King. Despite his previous denials of involvement or supervision, Jarnail Singh identifies himself in questions from Brian Altman QC as THE decision maker in the cases in 2014. Jarnail Singh is also asked about a policy meeting where he appears to have involvement in both then-current Post Office Prosecution Policies as well as proposals for new policies. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh tells the Post Office Inquiry that he HOPED he received vital disclosure documents when deciding whether or not to prosecute subpostmasters during his time in the Criminal Law Team. Jarnail Singh says he's not sure about prosecution policies at the Post Office and followed the Crown Prosecutor's Code of Practice and says that he did decide that some cases 'were not in the public interest' due to the sums of money alleged in shortfalls and the health of the subpostmasters or their families. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh admits to Jason Beer KC, after much deflection, that he WAS the decision maker on subpostmasters prosecutions when asked if he would have to refer his advice on to someone else for them to make a decision at the Post Office Inquiry. Despite previously distancing himself from responsibility for the cases, he now suggests that he did indeed play a role in deciding whether there was sufficient evidence for the prosecution of a subpostmaster and whether there was a realistic prospect of conviction. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh admits that 'foolproof' Horizon machines could go wrong but is seemingly not able to explain to Jason Beer KC at the Post Office Inquiry why he didn't make an attempts to verify the accuracy of Horizon data that he was provided beyond getting someone to sign a witness statement saying it was installed and running perfectly. Whilst admitting that audit data should have always been sought, he struggles to explain how the Post Office could even prove that had a loss had occurred without it saying that he relied on the auditors to check the information. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh has it put to him that he REVERSED the Burden of Proof back onto accused subpostmasters and asked why he didn't request crucial audit data from Fujitsu to prove whether a loss had even occurred! He does admit that he was wrong to do this but despite saying that he had read the Court of Appeal's judgement in Jo Hamilton's case was still suggesting in October 2023 that it was down to the Defence to request the evidence that they wanted rather than for the Post Office to proactively obtain it as part of a thorough investigation. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office REFUSED Audit Data Request from Defence Solicitors for a subpostmasters Due To Time and Cost it is revealed at the Post Office Inquiry when Jason Beer KC questions Jarnail Singh about a letter he wrote regarding Seema Misra's case. Jarnail Singh concedes that neither time nor cost were valid reasons not to seek audit data in the Post Office's prosecution of subpostmasters and indeed Jarnail Singh was advised by both the Defence, the Head of Legal at Fujitsu and their star expert witness Gareth Jenkins to collect the data to avoid 'speculation'. This advice never appears to have been acted upon. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh tells the inquiry that he was just trying to 'help' and 'do favours' for Seema Misra's legal team when he suggested Subpostmasters should have detailed lists of Horizon bugs that they have encountered in response to a disclosure by her legal team to the audit data from Fujitsu Horizon to prove that a loss had even occurred. He suggested that the fact they hadn't provided the Post Office with a 'defence statement' listing Horizon issues as a defence would 'damage the credibility' of their client in trial, seemingly avoiding the disclosure requested in the letter sent to him. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh's OWN Solicitor STOPS the Post Office Inquiry when she insists that they haven't been provided a copy of the evidence that shows Jarnail Singh DID conclude a prosecution of a subpostmaster would deter other subpostmasters from 'offending' after he had denied it and said that all cases would be decided on their merits. Jarnail Singh said he would consider the evidence and the public interest and, whilst that can be seen in the evidence shown at the Post Office Inquiry it also shows his conclusions that state such a prosecution would act as a 'deterrent effect' to others. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh asked what power he had to issue CAUTIONS by Jason Beer KC at the Post Office Inquiry. Jarnail Singh goes on to reference the Code of Practice for Crown Prosecutors which doesn't cover cautions. He is also unsure if there was a statutory basis for the Post Office issuing cautions and whether the Post Office had any policies and guidance on the issuing of cautions upon which he is unsure. He does highlight several factors that would influence whether a caution, rather than a prosecution, would be sought by the Post Office including a 'full and frank admission' of the allegations. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh is schooled by Jason Beer KC in the requirements of a Expert Witness proposed by a prosecutor in a criminal trial. Whilst Jarnail Singh agrees with them all, after long pauses, he takes issue with the fact that Gareth Jenkins was considered an expert - he says rather than an expert he was simply the person put forward by Fujitsu as the only person who could possibly comment on such a complicated and 'sophisticated' system as Horizon... Confused? We don't blame you... When is an expert not an expert? #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh admits that he's only VAGUELY aware of the requirements for Expert Reports in response to Jason Beer KC at the Post Office Inquiry. Jason Beer goes through a number of requirements for expert reports which Jarnail Singh says he's aware of 'in general terms' and would have looked into it further if he'd ever instructed an expert in a Post Office prosecution case. Despite the 'sophisticated' Horizon system being hard to understand, he doesn't recall having required expert witnesses in any Post Office prosecution case of a subpostmaster. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh insists that Gareth Jenkins was a 'witness of fact' because of his 'expertise' but was definitely not an 'expert' despite being able to comment on the 'specialist' Horizon system. Having gone through the requirements of an expert report with Jason Beer KC, Jarnail Singh agrees with him at the Post Office Inquiry that the reports contained none of the features required of an expert report but he consistently insists that's because they didn't see Gareth Jenkins as an expert at all. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh #GarethJenkins

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh has his Expert Witness Statement to the Post Office Inquiry TORN APART by Jason Beer KC over the status of Gareth Jenkins in the prosecutions and trials of subpostmasters. Avoiding using the words 'expert witness' he explains that he would have preferred to get a professor but that he couldn't find anyone else who could understand the sophisticated, complex and bespoke system as their non-expert witness with expertise in it. When the court determined Gareth Jenkins to be an expert, did the Post Office object? #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh #GarethJenkins

Inquiry Chair FED Up with Post Office Lawyer NOT answering questions as Jason Beer previously advises him to stick to the questions he's asking rather than going off on tangents about 'other stuff'. Not heeding this warning, Chair of the Post Office Inquiry Sir Wyn Williams dramatically intervenes saying 'what more evidence do I need that he [Jenkins] was an expert other than what you've just said'. Jarnail Singh says that he cannot think as fast as Jason Beer KC and the Post Office Inquiry takes a break to allow him to 'prepare himself'. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh #GarethJenkins

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh is accused of 'Rewriting History' as multiple pieces of evidence expose potential untruths from his witness statement to the Post Office Inquiry. As temperatures rise during the testimony Jarnail Singh can be seen to be tapping his witness statement claiming that it's all in their and it makes it the truth - despite growing evidence that the Post Office Inquiry has obtained to the contrary. Unrattled, Jason Beer KC puts his conclusions to Jarnail Singh asking if he's 'Rewriting History' because he didn't follow the correct procedures and handling of witnesses or prosecution cases. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office MISHANDLING of critical known Horizon bugs Disclosure Request to Fujitsu recommended by Warwick Tatford could have resulted in Fujitsu not disclosing all the known errors with the Horizon system to Post Office as part of the evidence for Seema Misra's trial due to a MISCOMMUNICATION of who the request was directed to - Gareth Jenkins or Fujitsu. Whilst initially the disclosure request is missed entirely, a conversation between Warwick Tatford and Jon Longman referenced in a key email seems to have flagged it but a subtle change of words and 'casual handling' of the case may have led to omissions. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh admits that any known errors with Fujitsu Horizon SHOULD have ENDED Post Office prosecutions of subpostmasters but isn't clear on whether he ever got the question as to whether there were any known errors answered by Fujitsu in the case of Seema Misra. Jarnail Singh declares that 'he wasn't the only lawyer' and says that he struggles to remember the rationale behind his emails to Fujitsu and Post Office counsel or whether he followed up and got answers to questions he was asking to disclose to the defence. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh becomes SUSPICIOUS about CALENDAR DATES whilst being questioned by Jason Beer KC answering 'I don't know' to a question about whether an email sent on 5th February was the Friday before the Monday 8th February court deadline. Jason Beer KC says that he doesn't want this to descend into disagreement over 'how a calendar works' as Jarnail Singh seems to be becoming increasingly suspicious at the Post Office Inquiry. Surely, the dates of the year are not going to be denied? #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh is made aware of a FATAL FLAW in a prosecution case against a subpostmaster by Fujitsu due to missing audit data that has not been requested for the branch in question. Jarnail Singh describes it as 'essential' that this is pointed out in a disclosure log to the defence and the court - but does such disclosure ever take place? Jarnail Singh insists that he did everything he could but despite being made aware of issues relating to a lack of data 6 months before by Jon Longman, no progress appears to have been made right up to the court's deadline. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh admits that evidence was MISSING from disclosure to the defence and court in a case of Post Office prosecution against a subpostmaster as email exchanges between himself and others are omitted in addition to drafts of witness statements where there had been 'material changes' to what was said in the finalised version. Jarnail Singh admits that these should have been included but had to take some time away from the Post Office at the time so this should have been handled by someone else. Asked about what steps he took to ensure that this would be the case, he says that the case was constantly under review. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh finally ADMITS mishandling EXPERT witness Gareth Jenkins after being presented with numerous pieces of evidence at the Post Office Inquiry, some that he wrote himself, referring to Gareth Jenkins as being an expert witness in the prosecution of the case of Seema Misra whilst working at the Post Office. In light of the overwhelming evidence, Jarnail Singh admits that he made an 'error' in not explaining the duties of an expert witness to Gareth Jenkins at any point and agrees that he should have done so. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh OMITS the 'Locking Issue' mentioned by Gareth Jenkins and passed on to the Post Office via David Jones from Disclosure and also seemingly from internal discussions regarding the draft answers to be provided to the defence when emailing Warwick Tatford and Jon Longman following evidence shown to the Post Office Inquiry. Jarnail Singh stops to consult with his lawyer briefly before answering the question raising an issue relating to the self-incrimination warning previously delivered at the beginning of his evidence by Post Office Inquiry chair Sir Wyn Williams. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh is UNSURE about the lack of defence disclosure regarding the 'locking issue' mentioned by Gareth Jenkins when questioned by Jason Beer KC and the Post Office Inquiry. Following consultation with his solicitor, Jason Beer KC pointedly asks if he has 'now decided to respond with I don't know and I don't recall' to which Jarnail Singh replies that without further context and given the passage of time it is now hard for him to recall these events. The locking issue is last mentioned in an email from Fujitsu to Jarnail Singh but is subsequently not mentioned in further communication on the subject nor is it mentioned in the witness statement. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office Lawyer Jarnail Singh says that he cannot explain in MINUTE detail why the witness statement provided by Gareth Jenkins from Fujitsu doesn't meet the criteria of an expert report but nethertheless seems to agree that it does not. Additionally, he says that he is unsure of the instruction given to Gareth Jenkins for meeting with the defence's expert beyond an email where he informs him to meet with him and let him know once it's happened. He explains that without further context it is difficult for him to answer the questions any further. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh

Post Office issued a stay for ABUSE of process in the prosecution of Seema Misra and this is shown to Jarnail Singh at the Post Office Inquiry for comment as he concludes his evidence to Phase 4. Jarnail Singh comments that this took place a long time ago and the stay for abuse of process highlights the 'contradictory statements' in the defence statement served from Gareth Jenkins relating to audit data that needs to be requested that they felt they have already requested by this point. Jarnail Singh says that he feels some of these events happened much later based on his recollection of events from the time. #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #PostOffice #PostOfficeLegal #JarnailSingh