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Between Geoffrey Rutherford Weir and Others and (1) Secretary of State for Transport (2) The Department for Transport: Witness Statement of Tom Winsor

Document Summary

Tom Winsor's witness statement in the case brought by Railtrack shareholders against the government for placing Railtrack into administration.

This document was published in June 2005 by Royal Courts of Justice.

It was written by Tom Winsor.

The original document format was PDF File, and comprised 24 pages.

This document was kindly sourced from Site Contributor and is in our Court documents collection. It was added to the Archive on 8th September 2006.

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"The next day (Sunday 7 October 2001) I thought very hard about going up to London to the High Court to attend the hearing. My main reason for not going was that I knew that the Secretary of State would have to satisfy the Court that Railtrack was insolvent. I knew that it would be told of Railtrack's financial position (including my intact jurisdiction to do an interim access charges review and the thorough analysis of the company's financial condition). I also did not expect Railtrack to acquiesce in the petition; rather I thought they would fight and ensure that the Secretary of State proved their insolvency.

I was provided with none of the papers associated with the petition until several days after the order was made. If I had seen the papers in advance, I would certainly have intervened."

Timeline:
Collapse of Railtrack

15th October 1999
Private Eye No. 987 - Railtrack Disaster - Millions Lost

20th October 2000
Train Derailment At Hatfield: First HSE Interim Report

3rd November 2000
Private Eye No. 1014 - Railtrack Boss Spells It Out

23rd January 2001
Train Derailment At Hatfield: Second HSE Interim Report

5th July 2001
DfT Notes of Meeting Held with the Chairman of Railtrack on 27 June 2001

30th July 2001
DfT Notes of July 25th 2001 Meeting with Railtrack

31st July 2001
Email - Re: Renewco

31st July 2001
Project Ariel : Whether and How to Restructure the Industry

23rd August 2001
Executive Summary: The Treatment of Debt and Equity

29th August 2001
Email - re: Ariel

29th August 2001
Email - Re: Ariel

4th September 2001
Email - Re: Chx, PM, Byers trilateral on railways

14th September 2001
Email - Ariel treatment of lenders

16th September 2001
Email - Re: Update on Railtrack

18th September 2001
Email - Draft Minute

19th September 2001
Railtrack - Speaking Note

19th September 2001
Railtrack - Speaking Note (annotated)

20th September 2001
Email - Renewco Handling

21st September 2001
Email - NGCL - classification issues

24th September 2001
Treatment of Railtrack Debt And Shareholders

26th September 2001
Railtrack: Project Ariel

2nd October 2001
Email: Ariel Update

6th October 2001
DfT Notes of Meeting Held on 5 October 2001 between Stephen Byers and Tim Winsor

6th October 2001
DfT Notes of Meeting Held with the Chairman of Railtrack on 5 October 2001

6th October 2001
ORR Notes of Meeting on 5 October 2001 with the Secretary of State for Transport

6th October 2001
Telephone note between Rail Regulator and Railtrack PLC

7th October 2001
DTLR Press Release 07.10.2001

10th October 2001
Note of meeting between Rail Regulator and DfT's Permanent Secretary

11th October 2001
DTLR Press Release 11.10.2001

12th October 2001
DfT Statement on Meeting Between Stephen Byers and Railtrack on 12 October 2001

23rd October 2001
DTLR Press Release 23.10.2001

31st October 2001
DTLR Press Release 31.10.2001

8th November 2001
Notes of Regulator's Meeting 7 November 2001

25th February 2002
Concordat between the Strategic Rail Authority and the Office of the Rail Regulator

8th March 2002
Private Eye No. 1049 - Byers Confesses

August 2002
Hatfield Derailment Investigation: Interim Recommendations Of The Investigation Board

16th November 2004
Hatfield Report and Recommendations

June 2005
Between Geoffrey Rutherford Weir and Others and (1) Secretary of State for Transport (2) The Department for Transport: Witness Statement of Tom Winsor...

24th July 2006
Train Derailment at Hatfield: A Final Report by the Independent Investigation Board

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