Senior executives felt that this language was “less emotive”.
But a lawyer for the inquiry branded the move as “absolutely Orwellian”.
But a lawyer for the inquiry branded the move as “absolutely Orwellian”.
The prosecutions between between 1999 and 2015 resulted in what is widely regarded as one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history.
On Tuesday, the Post Office’s former general counsel Susan Crichton gave evidence.
Julian Blake, one of the lawyers for the inquiry, revealed an email from Ms Vennells from 2013 in which she asked her “engineer/computer literate” husband: “What is a non-emotive word for computer bugs, glitches, defects that happen as a matter of course?”
Mr Vennells, who did not work for the Post Office, suggested “exception or anomaly”. The Post Office then started to refer to known defects in the system as “exceptions”.
“Are we to understand here that words that were suggested by Paula Vennells’ husband have now made their way into the terminology that’s being used by the business?” asked Mr Blake.
But a lawyer for the inquiry branded the move as “absolutely Orwellian”.
Senior executives felt that this language was “less emotive”.
The prosecutions between between 1999 and 2015 resulted in what is widely regarded as one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history.
But a lawyer for the inquiry branded the move as “absolutely Orwellian”.
But a lawyer for the inquiry branded the move as “absolutely Orwellian”.
The prosecutions between between 1999 and 2015 resulted in what is widely regarded as one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history.
On Tuesday, the Post Office’s former general counsel Susan Crichton gave evidence.
Julian Blake, one of the lawyers for the inquiry, revealed an email from Ms Vennells from 2013 in which she asked her “engineer/computer literate” husband: “What is a non-emotive word for computer bugs, glitches, defects that happen as a matter of course?”
Mr Vennells, who did not work for the Post Office, suggested “exception or anomaly”. The Post Office then started to refer to known defects in the system as “exceptions”.
“Are we to understand here that words that were suggested by Paula Vennells’ husband have now made their way into the terminology that’s being used by the business?” asked Mr Blake.
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