Absent Justice - Documentary Alan-Bates vs Post Office
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Alan Bates vs. Post Office explores the concept of legal abuse, or legal bullying, which occurs when public officials use the law to control and intimidate small business operators, including Post Office sub-contractors.
Friday 28 June 2024
Ex-Fujitsu engineer was ‘happy’ with evidence he gave at subpostmaster’s trial
Jordan Reynolds, PA
·6-min read (Refer to https://shorturl.at/zZ18g)
A former senior Fujitsu engineer “felt happy” at the time with evidence he gave as part of a trial which led to a wrongly convicted pregnant subpostmaster being jailed, the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry heard.
Gareth Jenkins’s evidence about the Horizon system was used in the prosecutions of many subpostmasters, including Seema Misra, who was given a 15-month prison sentence in November 2010, when she was eight weeks’ pregnant.
A transcript of parts of Ms Misra’s trial was shown to the inquiry on Thursday, and Mr Jenkins was questioned about his evidence, during which he said the Post Office’s help desk “wasn’t actually very good at passing things on when they should have been” and added he had not gone through Ms Misra’s call log with the help desk before giving evidence.
Mr Jenkins worked at Fujitsu, formerly known as International Computer Ltd, for the whole of his professional career before retiring in 2015, and had been a “distinguished engineer” since the mid-1990s.
Previous witnesses to the inquiry claimed Mr Jenkins may have committed perjury due to his failure to disclose knowledge of bugs in the Horizon system to subpostmasters.
He is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police on suspicion of perjury and perverting the course of justice.
During Ms Misra’s trial, Mr Jenkins was asked “if a computer problem led to a problem with the actual figures with the accounts, would that problem manifest itself to staff at the Post Office”?
The following letter, dated 16 July 1997, was written by John Pinnock, the official administrator of the arbitrations, to William Hunt, and the lawyer to Graham Schorer (COT spokesperson). In this letter, Mr Pinnock notes that.
“Lane is presently involved in arbitrations between Telstra and Bova, Dawson, Plowman and Schorer. The change of ownership of Lane is of concern in relation to Lane’s ongoing role in these arbitrations.
“The first area of concern is that some of the equipment under examination in the arbitrations is provided by Ericsson.…
“The second area of concern is that Ericsson has a pecuniary interest in Telstra. Ericsson makes a large percentage of its equipment sales to Telstra which is one of its major clients.
“It is my view that Ericsson’s ownership of Lane puts Lane in a position of potential conflict of interest should it continue to act as Technical Advisor to the Resource Unit. …
“The effect of a potential conflict of interest is that Lane should cease to act as the Technical Advisor with effect from a date shall [sic] be determined.” (See File 296-A - GS-CAV Exhibit 258 to 323)
In fact, on 24 July 1997, John Pinnock wrote a second letter concerning the same Lane Telecommunications conflict of interest, disallowing Ann Garms the right to have a re-hearing of her arbitration claim on the grounds Lane had previously been the technical consultants assigned to her case ( File 298 - GS-CAV Exhibit 258 to 323)
Telstra's arbitration defence unit stated to the COT arbitrator in several COT arbitrations, including mine, that Telstra had found no significant faults with the Ericsson telephone equipment they used in their telephone exchanges. This lie was of immense proportion. This lie denied all COT Cases a proper assessment of their arbitration claims where Telstra had used Ericsson equipment.
None of the COT Cases were granted leave to appeal their arbitration awards even though it is now apparent that the purchasing of the Australian government-appointed technical unit Lane had to have been in motion months before the purchase. The government should investigate each COT Case to determine what they lost due to Lane not addressing the ongoing Ericsson AXE telephone problems, which destroyed the COT Case businesses after the conclusion of their arbitrations.
Between 1994 and 2009, around 120,000 Telstra customers in Australia faced similar issues with Telstra Ericsson AXE telephone problems as Alan Bates and his subpostmaster experienced. (see Chapter 1 - Can We Fix The CAN).
Like the British Post Office, up to 2005, Telstra had so much power over AUSTEL (the then government communications regulator (now called ACMA) that it forced AUSTEL/ACMA to drastically reduce the numbers as shown in the official government regulatory COT Case April 1994 Report, from some 120,000 COT-type customers who were having similar CAN and Ericsson AXE problems, right around Australia (see Falsification Report File No/8) to 50-plus. Telstra was also somehow able to force AUSTEL to submit fabricated SVT reports to the minister via their third quarterly COT Cases Report of 2 February 1995.
The Horizon software's incorrect billing and accounting issues at the British Post Office sub-post Master/contractors are equivalent to the telecommunications problems that 120,000 COT-type Telstra customers faced due to the Ericsson AXE software. Reading Chapters 1 to 12 below will demonstrate how these Ericsson AXE software problems devastated the lives of Telstra customers.
I need to use the Ericsson link above as part of my ongoing effort to prompt an impartial investigation by the Australian government into my claims against Telstra. It's crucial to address whether Ericsson should have been allowed to acquire Lane Telecommunications Pty Ltd while Lane was the officially appointed arbitration technical consultant assigned to the COT arbitrator. This arbitrator was responsible for evaluating the COT cases' claims against Telstra, which also involved the Ericsson telephone equipment installed in the telephone exchanges servicing the COT Cases businesses.
Alan Bates Post Office Scandal - Julian Assange
Alan Bates vs. Post Office explores the concept of legal abuse, or legal bullying, which occurs when public officials use the law to control and intimidate small business operators, enter Julian Assange.
Chapter 1
Learn about government corruption and the dirty deeds used by the government to cover up these horrendous injustices committed against 16 Australian citizens
Chapter 2
Betrayal deceit disinformation duplicity falsehood fraud hypocrisy lying mendacity treachery and trickery. This sums up the COT government endorsed arbitrations.
Chapter 3
Ending bribery corruption means holding the powerful to account and closing down the systems that allows bribery, illicit financial flows, money laundering, and the enablers of corruption to thrive.
Chapter 4
Learn about government corruption and the dirty deeds used by the government to cover up these horrendous injustices committed against 16 Australian citizens. Government corruption within the public service affected most if not all of the COT arbitrations.
Chapter 5
Corruption is contagious and does not respect sectoral boundaries. Corruption involves duplicity and reduces levels of morality and trust.
Chapter 6
Anti-corruption policies need to be used in anti-corruption reforms and strategy. Corruption metrics and corruption risk assessment is good governance
Chapter 7
Bribery and Corruption happens in the shadows, often with the help of professional enablers such as bankers, lawyers, accountants and real estate agents, opaque financial systems and anonymous shell companies that allow corruption schemes to flourish and the corrupt to launder their wealth.
Chapter 8
Corrupt practices in government and the results of those corrupt practices become problematic enough – but when that corruption becomes systemic in more than one operation, it becomes cancer that endangers the welfare of the world's democracy.
Chapter 9
Corruption in government, including non-government self-regulators, undermines the credibility of that government. It erodes the trust of its citizens who are left without guidance are the feel of purpose. Bribery and Corruption is cancer that destroys economic growth and prosperity.
Chapter 10
The horrendous, unaddressed crimes perpetrated against the COT Cases during government-endorsed arbitrations administered by the Telecommunication Industry Ombudsman have never been investigated.
Chapter 11
This type of skulduggery is treachery, a Judas kiss with dirty dealing and betrayal. This is dirty pool and crookedness and dishonest. This conduct fester’s corruption. It is as bad, if not worse than double-dealing and cheating those who trust you.&a
Chapter 12
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Summary of Events
Read about the corruption within the government bureaucracy that plagued the COT arbitrations. Learn who committed these horrendous crimes and where they sit in Australia’s Establishment and the legal system that allowed these injustices to occur.
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