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Post Office inquiry live: Lawyer Rodric Williams suspicious of BBC interview request - BBC News Post Office inquiry live: Lawyer Rodric Williams dismissed concerned sub-postmaster as 'bluffer' - BBC News
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The inquiry has returned from lunch, continuing to hear evidence from Rodric Williams - a senior in-house lawyer for the Post Office. The inquiry has been shown evidence of a review, carried out in in July 2013, into the management of and exchange of information with the Second Sight review.
Here's a recap of what we have heard so far today: The evidence shows Post Office staff were discussing sensitive and legally privileged information, including emails showing they talked about how to make sure this information didn't reach those it wasn't meant for.
Williams called a former sub-postmaster who was trying to warn others about Horizon a "bluffer" in a 2015 email to colleagues Beer asks Williams why that inquiry was carried out.
He had told colleagues "we don't need to do research on Horizon", and if sub-postmasters did not like it "they can choose not to provide services for us" Williams is at first puzzled by the question, but then says he "imagines" that it was due to issues with potential shredding or suggestions of shredding of documents.
The inquiry was shown Williams's response to a 2014 email from a BBC journalist, saying that the questions the Post Office was being asked were "getting ridiculous" Pressed on it, Williams says he is not aware of a "formal review", but he says he thinks it was at the time when there had been reports of shredding of minutes from meetings.
The Post Office lawyer said he did not believe there was an "obligation" on the Post Office to do market research on Horizon's users
He said there was a "bunker mentality" among Post Office staff over the way the media treated the Horizon scandal
Williams said he felt "something was up" when he was invited to film a 2015 BBC interview and feared the programme would feature postmasters' complaints
He added that he felt the Post Office felt "got at" by the media
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