Updated The Post Office Horizon inquiry may be forced to recall witnesses after the company delayed disclosing evidence – some relating to communications to and from former chief executive Paula Vennells.
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Jason Beer KC, counsel for the inquiry, said the Post Office had disclosed thousands of documents just weeks before the inquiry reopened this week. Some were relevant to witnesses to be called this week, some to personal and third-party communications requested last July, while some appeared as recently as Friday (April 5).
Beer said the late disclosure represented an issue "that the investigation has become extremely and unfortunately familiar with over the last three years."
He said the response to the Section 21 notice was particularly worrying. Starting last July, the inquiry requested files from Ernst and Young (EY), Deloitte, KPMG and Linklaters, which had conducted reviews of the controversial Horizon computer system.
