POL00070104 - Email from Stephen Dilley to Peter Sewell re EXTREMELY URGENT Post Office Ltd v Lee Castleton

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Stephen Dilley

From: Stephen Dilley

Sent: 18 December 2006 11:33

To: Sewell Peter (FELO1)

Subject: RE: EXTREMELY URGENT Post Office Limited -v- Lee Castleton

1 December 2003 to 30 April 2004

From: Sewell Peter (FELO1) [mailto;
Sent: 18 December 2006 11:31
To: Pinder Brian; Stephen Dilley
Subject: RE: EXTREMELY URGENT Post Office Limited -v- Lee Castleton

Stephen
I need the date range regarding the request for NT Logs.
Regards Pete

Security Project Manager

Post Office Account

FUJITSU SERVICES

Sackville House, Brook Close, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 2FZ

Web —_http://uk.fujitsu.com

Fujitsu Services Registered in England no 96056,

Registered Office 22 Baker Street,

London W1U 3BW

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From: Pinder Brian
Sent: 18 December 2006 11:29

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Stephen Dilley

From: Pinder Brian!

Sent: 18 December 2006 1
To: Stephen Dilley

Ce: Sewell Peter (FELO1)

Subject: RE: EXTREMELY URGENT Post Office Limited -v- Lee Castleton
Importance: High

Stephen

Just reading the emails, I believe Peter is dealing with this in my absence, and to avoid anyone going off at a
tangent he will drive any requests for information you may have through to the relevant FJ staff concerned.

Regds Brian

From: Stephen Dilley [mailto
Sent: 18 December 2006 09:23
To: Pinder Brian

Cc: Chambers Anne O;
graham.c.ward@__
Subject: EXTREMELY URGENT Post Office Limited -v- Lee Castleton
Importance: High

Dear Brian,
I refer to Anne's email below.

Mr Castleton has this morning made an application to resume the trial arising from the late
disclosure of the document Anne referred to in her evidence. The application must be heard by
21 December at the latest. In the circumstances, please can I ask you to supply the document
immediately so that I can send it to Mr Castleton.

I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards.
Stephen Dilley

Solicitor

for and on behalf of Bond Pearce LLP

www.bondpearce.com

From: Anne.Chambers [mailta.
Sent: 16 December 2006 15:30
To: Stephen Dilley

Dear Stephen,

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I do not myself have direct access to the archived system (Tivoli) event logs; they are held by our Security
team and I have not looked at the logs for Marine Drive since 2004 (before they were archived), apart from
checking 1st April 2004 following one of your queries the week before last. Until that point I was not aware
that they were available. Obviously when questioned about them in court, I had to acknowledge that they
were still available, even if not rechecked by me.

I will make sure your request has been received by the Security team on Monday.
Regards,

Anne.

Stephen Dilley[SMTP
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 6:11:17 PM
To:ChambersAnneQO

‘ewell Peter (FELO1); mandy.talbot!
Tom Beezer

Importance: High
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Dear Anne,

Firstly, many thanks to you and Andy Dunks for attending Court to give evidence this week
which was helpful. The judge has reserved his judgment which will probably be given in the
new year. Thanks also to Brian and his team for helpfully providing information about the
Falkirk branch on short notice.

In any litigation, the parties involved have a continuing obligation pursuant to the Court rules
to disclose all documents that may help or hinder their case or the other side's case. In this
context, a "document" means anything in which information of any description is recorded, so
it includes, just for example, a computer database. Previously, I had asked Fujitsu to let me
have all the info it had and had been helpfully given HSH call logs, transaction logs and events
logs. 1 was also recently told that there was a message store which had everything else on it
and we invited Mr Castleton to look at it this, but he didn't take up the opportunity.

However, whilst giving evidence you told the Court that there was also a different sort

of events log, not included on the message store, that we had not seen or disclosed for the
Marine Drive branch. Mr Castleton has telephoned me today and asked for a copy of this to
be supplied to him immediately.

The Court has ordered Mr Castleton to make any application for a resumed hearing resulting
from the P.O's late disclosure of this document by 19 December. Going back to Court now the
trial appears to be concluded is the last thing we want, but we will do this if we need to. Iam
not sure what application Mr Castleton would make. Possibly he may say his case was
prejudiced by not having this information made available earlier.

I anticipate that nothing will probably turn on the document you referred to because you said
it didn't contain any errors that would cause the losses, but the P.O are nevertheless under an
obligation to supply it and if we don't, could face court sanction. Please can I therefore ask
for it to be emailed to me as soon as possible on Monday morning so that I can in turn send it
to Mr Castleton.

I look forward to hearing from you.

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Kind regards,

Stephen Dilley
Solicitor

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Pearce LLP accepts no liability for any loss or damage which may be caused by software viruses.

Bond Pearce LLP is a Limited Liability Partnership registered in England and Wales number
0C311430.

Registered Office: 3 Temple Quay, Temple Back East, Bristol, BS1 6DZ.

A list of Members is available from our registered office. Any reference to a Partner in relation to
Bond Pearce LLP means a Member of Bond Pearce LLP. Bond Pearce LLP is regulated by the Law
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