The supporting record
Documents & source notes.
Mark John Mayo v Miss E / L00BP152
Read the reporting. Understand its sources.
Seventeen distinct PDFs support the reviewed Pole BH68 reporting, including the formal notices and referral request. Each entry opens a substantive source note. Original PDFs will be added as publication copies become available.
TP01–TP16 · Planning & heritage
The Torridge planning source record
A dated index of the shed advice, design and heritage objections, photograph provenance and Council roles, planning-history replies, access-warning and forestry correspondence, later decisions, family accounts and sale-related photograph.
Source T · Version and response review
Annex E, Seldons’ replies and later outcomes
The document versions, October notice and acknowledgement, express denial, SRA decision and July trial order.
Final notice to Judge Paul Mitchell
29 April 2026: the request for the N260, filing and service records, and reasons.
Copies reviewed · 12–13 September 2026
We reviewed 17 distinct PDFs, 129 pages. Duplicate copies are indexed once. Five additional documents were reviewed on 13 September; the resupplied attributed exchange was re-examined and is identical to Document F already indexed. Each entry identifies its review date.
The signed wayleave agreement
The 2024 contractual documents relied upon by Miss E, including a signed plan identifying Pole BH68.
The questions and the replies
The exchanges about the plan, payment records and wayleaves, including substantive replies and two later requests for clarification.
The April 2025 plan and email
The map and reproduced 28 April 2025 email containing the phrase ‘showing the apparatus on your title’.
The 6 May 2026 letter before action addressed to Nick Shackson
The family’s 6 May 2026 account of its concerns and its requests for explanations and supporting records.
The covering email and representation reply
The family’s covering email and a reproduced response confirming that National Grid Electricity Distribution (South West) plc had instructed Geldards LLP; the email also refers to correspondence with Mark Hacking of Geldards.
The April 2024 correspondence attributed to Amelia Skea and Mr Mayo
A disputed printed exchange referring to BH67 and BH68, a payment-record update, and supporting attachments that are not included in this copy.
The verification requests and the March 2025 referral
Miss E’s authentication and payment-record questions, a follow-up copying Amelia Skea, and a recorded referral to Nigel Merrifield.
The 7 May 2026 letter before action addressed to Amelia Skea
The family’s allegations and renewed requests for authentication, records and an explanation of the apparent BH68 position.
The email transmitting the Skea letter and supporting documents
The 7 May 2026 covering email lists the letter, agreement and disputed correspondence as attachments and names corporate copied recipients.
Geldards’ April and May 2026 replies
Mark Hacking’s replies about NGED’s position, the disputed status of earlier requests, receipt of the Skea letter and routing of further correspondence.
October 2025: the defendant’s rebuttal to the claimant’s reply
The defendant’s written challenge to the National Grid correspondence, including allegations of editing and a retrospective redaction explanation.
October 2025: the summary of oral argument for the strike-out hearing
The written oral-argument summary for the 14 October 2025 hearing at Barnstaple County Court, including the defendant’s editing and redaction allegations.
Annex E: the particularised allegation of email insertion and evidential manipulation
The expanded Annex E alleges insertion of BH68 into correspondence originally about BH67, reliance on that material and omission of Miss E’s executed documents from expert instructions.
27 October 2025: notice to Luke Cornwell and Seldons, with a demand to preserve originals
An email addressed to Luke Cornwell and Seldons expressly raises personal and firm-level allegations and asks for preservation of originals, metadata and related records.
26 October 2025: Annex J-2 challenges the email, disclosure history and claimed transfer
Mr J’s warning challenges the alleged email alterations, newly listed historic agreements and the basis on which the claimed wayleave transfer was being advanced.
25–26 October 2025: Annex J-1 demands the underlying wayleave documents
The family’s notice alleges that BH68 was inserted into fabricated correspondence and demands authentic supporting documents rather than disclosure lists alone.
29 October 2025: the family’s referral request addressed to the CPS
An outgoing email to CPS mailboxes alleges insertion of BH68 into National Grid correspondence and requests assessment and coordination with the SRA.
Publication copies
These notes describe the source material. They are not reproductions of the original documents. No original source PDF has been uploaded to this draft.
S · Public policy sources
National Grid’s leadership, ethics and service standards
The official sources behind the six proposed executive-review questions, with the wayleave-complaint distinction and policy dates explained.