How far should a lawyer go?

And did the Post Office lawyers got too far?

The public inquiry into the Post Office IT scandal should be well worth watching here from 10 o’clock this morning.

Sir Wyn Williams, the chair, will hear oral evidence from Stephen Dilley, a partner at the law firm Womble Bond Dickinson in Bristol. Dilley acted for the Post Office in a civil claim it brought against a former subpostmaster for recovery …