“4. It has become a familiar experience in this case to meet a major deadline such as the exchange of skeletons or evidence, only for Dr Wright to seek to add further reliance material an hour or two later such that it could not be addressed in a timely manner. So it is in this case. As the Court will be aware, this is now the fourth set of documents that Dr Wright has relied upon:

4.1. First, there were his original set of reliance documents, which were disclosed and nominated at the proper time. These were addressed in the first Madden Report and found to consist substantially of inauthentic documents (a finding with which Dr Wright’s own expert, Dr Placks, largely agreed).

4.2. Then, Dr Wright sought (and received) a second chance from the Court. He responded to the expert evidence by ‘discovering’ a new drive, from which he produced 97 New Documents as his second-chance Reliance Documents — for which permission was sought (and granted) at the PTR. Most of these were found to be inauthentic by way of the Fourth Madden Report and were agreed by Dr Wright’s own expert witness, Mr Lynch, to have been created in September 2023.

4.3. A little after ‘discovering’ those documents, Dr Wright discovered a third tranche of documents, his LaTeX files, and added a request for permission to rely on these at the PTR (though he would not disclose them beforehand). These third-chance reliance documents were said by Dr Wright and his solicitors to be of critical importance, yet were found to be entirely inauthentic by way of the Rosendahl report, and by agreement with Dr Wright’s own expert witness (Mr Lynch). These files were also said by Dr Wright to have no metadata: however, metadata did in fact exist and was available through Overleaf. Once that was (very belatedly) provided, it showed that Dr Wright had edited the LaTeX files in November and December 2023 (as is well summarised in MacFarlanes’ letter to the Court of 23 January 2024 and the raw data annexed to it: {AB-A/5/57}).

5. Following receipt of the various expert reports in relation to the 97 New Documents and the LaTeX Files, Dr Wright now seeks to rely on a yet further, extremely late, fourth tranche of 24 documents (the “the Application Documents”).” — Phil Nathan Sherrell’s 20th witness statement