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CROWN COURT ATTENDANCE NOTE.
Date: 3" November 2010.
Client: Post Office ~v- Alison Henderson
File Ref.: 55
In the Norwich Crown Court T20100647
Listed at: 0930a.m.
Before: HHJ Darroch
For (s.51; PCMH; trial; sentence; mention) PCMH
Pros: Assigned counsel — Warwick Tatford 9-12 Bell Yard, but
Chris Youel! from Norwich CPS covered this hearing.
Def: Anthony Clare
No Post Office investigator was in attendance (nor was he needed).
Summary of times:
Preparation: 12 mins
Travel: 5 hours 18 mins
0600-0836; 1000-1242
Waiting: 54mins
0900-0954
Hearing: 06 mins
0954-1000
rail fare £26.00
Telephone calls:- 3 outbound
Summary of outcome:
Arraigned on count 1 — Theft — not guilty
Between 1“ January 1997 and 11” February
Count 2 ~ False accounting - not guilty
Between 1* January 1997 and 11" February 2010.
Defence indicate no witnesses required to attend. (But pros. Counsel thinks that the
investigating officer should attend)
Interview summary is acceptable.
Time estimate I day.
Defence case statement to be served by 10.11.10
No bad character application
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Defence accept there is a discrepancy which she cannot explain.
Case adjourned until warned list week commencing 29" November 2010..
Bail as before.
NOTES:-
12 mins
Preparation
Reading file in readiness for hearing.
0600-0836
Travel.
Walk to station, purchase ticket, board 0627 arriving Norwich 0820 walk to court.
0836-0900
not claimed.
0900-0954
Waiting.
0920 — 1 x call out to counsel’s chambers. Miss Chan part-heard elsewhere, Mr.
Warwick Tatford is attending. I saying he not at court, had they had any message
from him, they saying they had not, but giving me his mobile number.
0925 ~1 x call out td
message left.
‘Warwick Tatford — straight to voicemail, no
Spoke to defence counsel — explaining counsel not here yet. He saying case is
straightforward ~ will be not guilty pleas, no need for any witnesses to attend,
interview summary ok, 1 day time estimate for trial. He also indicating he cannot
wait around, he has other things to do.
0935 — 1 x call to W.T. — leaving a message on his voicemail, reminding him we in
0930 list and asking him to call me with his ETA.
0945 — call in from W.T, he saying he has asked his clerks to cal] the court to explain
he will not be at court until 10.30 as he is having a nightmare journey. Saying if!
need to instruct anyone at court to cover the brief, please do so, he doesn’t want to
inconvenience anyone.
0954-1000
Hearing.
As above.
1x tel. call to W.T. going to voicemail - saying case now dealt with and no need for
him to go to court.
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1x tel. call in from W.T. - he asking me dewils of who Judge was, who def, csl was,
and who covered for him.
He suggesting that even though defence do not require any witnesses, he thinks that at
feast the investigating officer should attend.
1000-1242
Travel.
Walk to station, board 1057 arriving Peterborough 1225, walk home.