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23" June 2006
Investigation Team Post Office Limited
c.c. Lisa Allen
Press Office
POST OFFICE LIMITED v SUZANNE LESLEY PALMER
SOUTHEND MAGISTRATES COURT.
COMMITTAL — 3°° JULY 2006 AT 9.45AM
CASE NO: POLTD/0506/0619
The committal papers have been approved and served on the Defence Solicitors
and Court. I enclose your copy, together with copy Form 14A.
Our Agents Messrs Sheldons Jenkins, Solicitors of 815 Southchurch Road,
Southend on Sea, Essex SS1 2PP (Tel.No. will prosecute at
Southend Magistrates Court on the 3% July 2006. The Officer in the case has
retained the original witness statements. She should attend Court and hand the
original witness statements to the Agents who have been instructed to hand them
into the Court.
As soon as I am aware of the Defence requirements concerning witnesses I shall
inform you. Please then immediately obtain leave dates/dates to avoid of all of
those witnesses. When obtaining their dates to avoid, please let the witnesses
know that it is of the utmost importance that if any of their dates change and, in
particular, if a holiday is booked after they have given you their dates to avoid then
they should inform you, or this Office, immediately. Please then return the file to
this Office together with the dates to avoid.
As you are aware, under the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996,
witness orders are abolished. It is therefore, your responsibility to ensure the
voluntary attendance at court of witnesses, or to make arrangements to issue a
witness summons from the Court if a witness whose attendance is required
indicates that he/she is unwilling to attend
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In accordance with the most recent Practice Direction seven copies of the
antecedent documents must be prepared which must be sent to this Office. We
shall then forward copies to the Crown Court.
Jarnail A Singh
Senior Lawyer
Criminal Law Division
Ref: CRM/252496/JSX
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