Blake turns to an email from Longman to Jarnail Singh, a Post Office lawyer, sent in August 2009.
In the email, Longman says at the hearing in July of that year, the defence indicated they would be seeking a forensic accountant to analyse Horizon data, after Misra challenged the accuracy of the IT system.
Longman goes on to say in the email that there was some issues with ordering the data. He also forwarded Singh an email from Dave Posnett, who outlined these issues.
The email from Posnett says that due to the size of the ARQ request, he couldn’t authorise Fujitsu to proceed.
As a reminder, the ARQ requests are Audit Record Queries – which show the record of transactions.
He also says they could only request 60 ARQs per month, and that this defence request could be detrimental to other prosecution requests.
Blake asks Longman if this was an appropriate consideration when deciding if something should or shouldn’t be disclosed to a defendant.
Longman says with hindsight, he wishes all data requested had been provided.
