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Ms Jane MacLeod/Mr Rodric Williams I
General Counsel/Solicitor i
Post Office Ltd
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20 Finsbury Street Our ref: 00485/2015 i
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Dear Ms MacLeod/Mr Williams
Mr Vipinchandra Patel (dob:
Requirement to Produce Materials
The above person has made an application for a review of his case. Mr Patel '
was convicted of fraud, false accounting and breach of trust at Oxford I
Magistrates’ Court on 03/06/2011. The Commission requires you to identify all I
material relating to the conviction of Mr Patel, including but not limited to: I
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. If for any reason you are unable to do so, please contact us immediately.
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CCRC Ref: 00485/2015
Name of Public Body: Post Office Ltd
Applicant's name: Vipinchandra Patel I
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Please return this form to:
Miss M Pickering, Casework Administrator
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Legal requirement to produce material for the I
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To: Chief Executive
Post Office Ltd
The Commission believes that you are the “appropriate person” for the I
purposes of section 17 Criminal Appeal Act 1995 who has possession or control i
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 material relating to the conviction of Mr Vipinchandra PATEL, including
but not limited to: 1
audit files;
investigation files;
prosecution files;
internal reviews;
external reviews
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accounting and
03/06/2011.
“I Mr Patel was convicted of fraud, false
of trust at Oxford Magistrates’ Court on
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
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contained in the material is not to be disclosed by the Commission without your
prior consent.
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on behaif of the Commission
Signed:
Dated: Wednesday 8th April 2015