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Ms Jane MacLeod
Post Office Ltd
148 Old Street
LONDON Your ref:
EC1V 9QH Our ref: 00358/2015
Wednesday 18th March
2015
Dear Ms MacLeod
Mrs Gail Ward
Requirement to Produce Materials — Post Office/Horizon Computer
System
The above person has made an application for a review of her case. Mrs Ward
was convicted of false accounting at Bristol Crown Court on 23/03/2009. The
Commission requires you to identify all documents and other materials in your
possession relating to this case and to produce them including, but not limited
to:
audit files,
investigation files,
prosecution files,
internal reviews,
external reviews
I have enclosed a formal notice, issued under section 17 of the Criminal Appeal
Act 1995, which requires you to do this. Please send all the documents and
other materials relating to this case together with the attached receipt within 28
days.
We realise that this may cause you some inconvenience and are grateful for
your co-operation, however you are under a legal obligation to comply with this
notice.
5 St Philip's Place, Birmingham Bg 2PW, DX 5466 Birmingham 41
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If for any reason you are unable to do so, please contact us immediately.
Yours sincerely
Mrs Vandana Mehra-Johal~
Casework Administration
Criminal Cases Review Commission
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CCRC Ref: 00358/2015 Name of Public Body: Post Office Ltd
Applicant’s name: Gail Ward
I confirm that:
* all documents and other materials are enclosed.
The appropriate contact person regarding this material is:
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Please return this form to:
Vandana Mehra-Johal
Criminal Cases Review Commission, 5 St Philip’s Place, Birmingham, B3 2PW.
5 St Philip’s Place, Birmingham B3 2 15466 Birmingham 41
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The independent public body which investigates possible miscarriages OF justice in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
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Criminal ¢ Cases ¢ Review* Commission
Legal requirement to produce material for the
Criminal Cases Review Commission
To: Chief Executive
Post Office Ltd
The Commission believes that you are the “appropriate person” for the
purposes of section 17 Criminal Appeal Act 1995 who has possession or control
of documents or other materials which may assist the Commission in the
exercise of its functions.
This notice now imposes a requirement upon you in respect of the following:
All documents and other materials, including material which has been the
subject of an application for public interest immunity, relating to the conviction of
Mrs Gail Ward (date of birthi_ _). Mrs Ward was convicted of false
accounting at Bristol Crown Court on 15/10/2007.
The Commission makes a direction under section 17(2) Criminal Appeal Act
1995 that the documents and/or other materials must not be destroyed,
damaged or altered. This direction takes priority over any weeding/destruction
policies until this direction is withdrawn by the Commission.
You now have a statutory duty to send all documents and other materials
specified above.
Your duty to comply with this requirement is not affected by any obligation of
secrecy or other limitation on disclosure (including any such obligation or
limitation imposed by or by virtue of an enactment) which would otherwise
prevent the production of the document or other material to the Commission or
the giving of access to it to the Commission. You may however notify us, in
accordance with section 25 of the Criminal Appeal Act, that information
contained in the material is not to be disclosed by the Commission without your
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Signed: I G RO I
_ ‘giFbetialf of the” Commission
Dated: Wednesday 18th March 2015
5 St Philip's Place,
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justice in England, Wales and Northern Ireland