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Let's return to the inquiry now. Blake asks Crichton if she had discussed document retention and shredding advice in the Post Office with the organisation's chief executive. The inquiry is now discussing advice from barrister Simon Clarke, acting for solicitors' firm Cartwright King, to the Post Office in 2013, which outlined that Gareth Jenkins was an unreliable expert witness and other concerns over documents that may have been shredded.
As a reminder, the Post Office has been accused of shredding important documents that could have undermined its claim that there was nothing wrong with the Horizon IT system. Remember, Jenkins, a former chief IT architect at Fujitsu, was considered to be an unreliable expert witness because he had failed to tell the courts about bugs and defects with the Horizon system which he knew about.
"I can't remember, but I should have done," Crichton replies. Crichton tells the inquiry she should, as general counsel, have put in place a process to ensure Clarke's advice and other matters of that significance were surfaced at board level.
Blake asks then if Crichton thinks that was significant enough to have been raised at board level. She cannot recall why it was not raised, but remembers that "there was a lot going on".
"Yes", replies Crichton, before adding that there was no opportunity to do so.
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