… Skinner. Mr Page in his email to the PO says he has seen an internal PO document disclosed to the legal team for Misra et al written by a barrister called Clark in 2013 about Gareth Jenkins (the senior Fujitsu engineer) evidence to the courts in PO prosecutions...

… it appears that internal document says that Jenkins evidence was wrong. BA is pointing out that this document was disclosed to the legal teams purely for legal proceedings, yet it appears to have been leaked to a journalist.

And that doing so is contempt of court punishable by imprisonment or a fine.

BA points to case law in 1982 referring to a document being read out in open court subsequently being passed to a journalist and that this was decided as contempt. BA points out that Lewis Page from the Daily Telegraph is related to Flora Page who is acting as counsel for...

… Misra et al. Looks like Mr Page has seen an extremely sensitive document wirtten by Simon Clark - in house counsel for Cartwright King - relating to the evidence given by Gareth Jenkins to the courts in 2013.

BA The advice to which reference is made was made available last week. It deals with Gareth Jenkins, his evidence as an expert witness and the fact he had told second sight in June 2013 that Horizon had “some bugs” which appeared to contradict what he had told the courts.

BA this document was discolsed to Aria Grace (Misra et als solicitors) last week. It is privileged advice. We submit that provision of this document by legal representatives of Aria Grace as stated by Lewis Page in breach of terms of the Disclosure Act, agreements and...

…. common law, amounts to a contempt of this court. The court will want to hear argument about whether there should be reporting restrictions now there is a a criminal investigation into former Fujitsu employees Gareth Jenkins and Anne Chambers.

The judge has risen whilst a technical gremlin is dealt with. He has ordered no live-tweeting of proceedings until further notice as we are about to hear submissions on possible reporting restrictions.

Just for the record, I informed the judge from the gallery I had been live tweeting everything that had been said up to that point. I will not be live-tweeting anything else going forward until clear permission from the judge is given.