Post Office legal chief Rodric Williams has been accused of “lying” after failing to admit that the organisation feared an Alan Bates victory would lead to a “cascade of criminal appeals”.
Mr Williams, who is currently head of legal in the Post Office’s dispute resolution and brand team, was being questioned over his previous role as a litigation lawyer for the scandal during the Horizon scandal.
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Lawyers are used to being in the comfortable position of asking the questions and they may sometimes choose that role as it is far easier than facing them, as we can see here. Phoney disposition to adopt in life.
The Council for the enquiry is going to get justice for the postmaster’s, I really wouldn’t want to be in the Post Office managers shoes. At some stage the PO managers will hold their hands up and admit their compliance if only to get a reduced sentence.
This guy acting thick as mince.
It will be standing room only when the hierarchy (the big guns) are having their turn in the chair in the next few weeks… probably all corroborating their stores leading up to giving evidence.
squirming like an eel
More prison bait.
How can this guys still being employed at the post office ? This guy should be in jail and condemned for compensation and not holding a legal position at the post office.
JAIL THESE CLOWNS!
So glad to see the Post Office being pinned down and then shocking to see that denial and unmoral lies just continue. What sort of people are these employed to destroy the staff who worked for them and expected to be treated as honest hard working employees.
Some of these shifty witnesses must be complicit and calculated, certainly at the senior level in the PO, Fujitsu and the government, along with their legal advisors. The rest are an utterly contemptable mixture of smug, over zealous employees cutting corners, along with a sad parade of the plain incompetent, lazy and cold blooded. Seems the only truly respectable and honest witnesses will be the sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses.
Liar is shocked at being called a liar but does not challenge it. Smugness begets this cock sure minion.
Can we get to a damn courtroom already!!! 🤬
Get them in a court of law and see if the lie when under oath, then if they do , lock them up
We are well and truly scraping the barrel here.
Whoever employed this bumbling idiot? Was it perhaps because of his demeanour, so useful at times for delaying and putting people off track, especially if they are already at their lowest ebb and have little legal experience.
Uriah Heep
I'm getting to the stage where tossers like this should be locked up simply for being a tosser, irrespective of whether he's actually broken the law.
WELEASE WODEWIC
What a useless clown
So where was the heated exchange?
He should have friction burns on his behind given all the uncomfortable shuffling he's doing on that seat.
A 5yr old could lie more convincingly than that.
Where was the heated exchange? Just more clickbait rubbish to entice people into watching the scum in this enquiry spout drivel whilst trying to get out of the lies they’ve made in the past.