Post Office Inquiry: Watch as Brian Altman KC gives evidence - in full
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- Опубликовано: 7 май 2024
- The Post Office Horizon Inquiry will hear evidence from Brian Altman KC - barrister.
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He just said that he had met and was impressed by Jamail Singh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG. I was questioning his credibility and now I have no question at all. He has zero credibility whatsoever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very poor judgement 😕
My goodness he must like reptiles
I have a feeling Mr Singh has been playing himself down massively
@@chook1311You may be right but boy howdy he is awfully good at it then.
Wasn’t it the other way round?
Here is my question: How much did they pay you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????? I understand that Cartwright King Solicitors has been paid 37 million pounds. The criminal lawyers became the criminals to keep their gravy train going! This all coming from the Post Office that refused to pay for the Fujitu data discovery that the subpostmasters had a legal right to!
Sir, you lie! You lie! Mr. Beer knows that Altman is lying and Altman knows that Mr. Beer knows that he is lying! Mr. Beer, you continue to be my hero,
He's amazing
You can hear witnesses fear when they’re lying to ‘The BEER’ 😂
Lovely, so slippery, slimy, and well rehearsed. What a fabulous human being, credit to his mother.
At 5.20.00 onwards, I don’t think Sir Wynn is being neutral here. I have noticed he stops aggressive questioning of any KC. The lawyers are as bent as POL.
Jason Beer leaves no stone unturned
One of the most revealing sets of Qs and As, as JB’s questions reveal wholesale failures by a series of lawyers to carry out their duties, both towards courts and defences but to also towards giving BA QC all the info he required.
Im afraid hes complicit in rhe whole awful saga.
Brian has been found out - he's one of those 'flexible' barristers - who is very smart - and can charm - but he was 'looking after' his money client and so he gently 'massaged' his advice and instructions. he knows that his 'instruction' were marked 'observations' precisely for the reasons that if anything happened he may be abke to hide behind semantics - which he has been doing throughout his evidence - when pushed on the experts report - he says he was looking at impact etc. - of course he can't admit that he was part of the problem - disclosure of the experts shortcomings are a very basic and school boy exercise - he knew what he was doing and he knows he'll get away with his part in the cover up
But he's been rumbled. There goes his knighthood
He gave POL processes a clean bill of health (after excluding advice and recommendations on Gareth Jenkins form his instruction list), which was then used by POL to prevent further investigations. "Did you check the processes and speak with anybody?" "No, I only looked at the hierarchy [can I have my money now?]. Nice. Any disclosure maybe to the sub-postmasters that were convicted despite bugs in Horizon and remote access by others? Nah, not my responsibility. Well done, Mr Altman KC!
Altman is the modern day equivalent of “Chief Inquisitor”, from the looks of it.
He doesn’t “turn his mind” to consider unpalatable thoughts of miscarriages of justice because “it’s not in the remit”.
If you want to understand why Julian Assange was shoved into max security jail for 6 years and is still there WITHOUT ANY CHARGES BEING BROUGHT, well look no further than Altman and his team.
Justice is not blind in the UK, but depends on the colour of your money (Post Office) and the commercial or political interests of the Prosecutors’ masters. It’s a joke for us to keep on believing that British justice is fair and impartial.
The bald Kc with the glasses was showboating & was shut down by Mr Wynn .......
come across as a very arrogant horrible person
Brian Altman KC was upset that he had to admit eight times that his judgment was wrong! And was then extremely annoyed that he had to repeat that so many times. Frankly if a person in his position thinks he is so “injured” and inconvenienced having to repeat so many times, he is clearly oblivious of his actions on the inconvenience of the sub postmasters when they continued to be held as criminals because he did not ensure that it was the PO Horizon bugs that caused the losses. Not their guilt.
Altman cannot be hireable by any prosecution service as jurors will not trust any submissions, cross examinations etc. as for “elevation” to the Bench has to be out of the question.
Showing A little humility would have been far more appropriate than complaining that he had to admit eight times to his poor judgment. So please keep him OFF all legal benches, but perhaps park him on a park bench!
Yes, he was a master class in bluffing and growling in a righteous manner, except he was not fooling anyone. At best, he was trying to salvage whatever reputation he might have had, but his -HIS- opinions or advices, were used to unsuccessfully try to cover grave miscarriages of justice.
His comment: I was naive
Jason Beer: this is not a trait associated with the top alickadoo of the British prosecutorial Chief Inquisitor
Altman: so what’s your point, leave it out, I said once already I might have made a mistake..
…fckr gets to say it 8 times more, but there’s lots more he ain’t saying.
He is a senior Silk who clearly did not want to bite the hand that fed him imo, whatever the consequences to others. He failed in his duty to the Court and ipso facto justice. I think a reasonable minded person would not accept his claim that he knew nothing of any disclosure issue, to my mind his advice to the Post Office served only the Post Office and not his other obligations as a (then) QC.
Altman is a disgusting individual
He does not like advesarial question but I bet he's did the same to other people what a hypocrite.sorry for going on but he disgusting me
He had confidence in jarnail sign.why is he a kc
He happy to be adverserial to accused in court but when he is adverarial questioned what a hypocrite
Tricky customer
very arrogant i thought
Arrogant to the last drop
Mr. Altman began with his no doubt habitual dismissive and superior attitude and quickly and rightly assessed that that positioning would be ill-advised with our incomparable Mr. Beer!
come across as arrogant
@@paulrichards6894 If you are referring to Altman, I could not agree more!
@@dinacox1971 i am a massive fan of jason beer.......if i ever have the misfortune to end up in court I want him to defend me
@@paulrichards6894 Me too alas I think that I had better be innocent! LOL
@@dinacox1971 dont think i will ever need him
His evidence is laughable. One of the foremost criminal lawyers in the land and he overlooks the staggeringly important issue of Jenkins’ perjury and the lack of instruction given to Jenkins. Things that would have stood out like a nine foot neon sign.
Defence lawyers spend a large amount of time chasing disclosure requirements. Prosecutors spend at least as much time hiding disclosure issues. Yet this top-of-food-chain expects people to belief he missed this vital issue. Pleeease.
He also has a magical memory forgetting things when convenient. But when pushed by Steen he recalls several paragraphs and sub-paragraphs by number and bullet point, trying to avoid the issue.
Oh dear, there are some days you may wish you had just stayed in bed. Some people have lots of those days.
I’ve sympathy for some of the pol witnesses, and understand memory loss as I have similar issues, but I’ve never suffered from such a complete loss in memory as have people much younger than I.
How many others can remember the almost uncountable times and many individual witnesses that have wielded Altman's shield during this Inquiry?
A worthy opponant to Mr beer on the same par i would say' gave as good as he got .....
Mr Beer is streets ahead
thought he came across as a slimeball
Beer KC’s reputation continues to rise as a straight talking, forensic and polite but very very well prepared barrister. I believe that Beer KC, as well as Blake KC and the others understand that the PO scandal at its heart is a scandal of huge problems with Legal Ethics at the highest levels that facilitated political and corrupt commercial interests in a key state owned institution AT THE UNFAIR EXPLOITATION OF THEIR EMPLOYEES’S own money by enforcing abusive contracts while covering up their own profit driven incompetence.
S H O C K I N G L Y A W F U L
I’m amazed and impressed with the direct and clear answers Mr. Altman is giving. Post Office staff go around the bush with their answers or are always saying they can’t remember. This man remembers everything.
No he doesn't
Disagree, in it up to his eyeballs
He doesn't let Beer sheet home any blame but Beer present's evidence that his paperwork doesn't match Altmans claims
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I might have no evidence to prove either way.
Convieniantly can't remember.
Suddenly remembers other details that throw doubt on his involvement.I don't think I did is also saying he could have known.
Interesting take on it at every opportunity Altman to innoculate himself he takes it.