that e—mail does not withstand the weight which ms swinson seeks to load upon it.edge on the issue but clearly and in retrospect wanted to assume the worst of ms vennells and sought to point the finger at her. in his oral evidence, alan cooke, the managing director of the post office between march 2006 and early 2010 stated that ms vennells probably authorised in 2006 substantial legal costs for post office's claim against mr castleton. this could not be correct. ms vennells did not join post office untiljanuary 2007. i now turn to the chronology of ms vennells's involvement which cannot for obvious reasons the a complete chronology. even at 140 pages of written submissions we could not set out a complete chronology with reference to every relevant document. ms vennells was ceo of a newly separated, highly complex business with more than 11,000 branches. her role as ceo and before that as network director stretched far more broadly than horizon, to financial management, stakeholder engagement, strategic planning and decision—making, regulatory matters in the financ