Day 255 - 23 May 96 - Page 50
1 rider from the leaflet, that was the top of that second
2 page. There is no point in asking the witness anything
3 about it.
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5 We wanted to note also that there are actually two other
6 meetings that Mr. Nicholson attended, the 21st March, that
7 was page 16 and a half, but there was another one on the
8 28th February which was ----
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. That is the one I pointed out earlier,
11 but what I had not remembered then, because I was
12 suggesting that might have been the later meeting, if Mr.
13 Nicholson only did go to two, but clearly the meeting on
14 the 21st March is later.
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16 MR. MORRIS: Yes. It is possible you might have attended 3
17 meetings, is it?
18 A. It is possible, I cannot remember. I thought I
19 had only attended the initial one plus one following, but
20 it is possible I was at two, another follow up. The
21 meetings I attended all took place at Barlows. I must say
22 I cannot remember attending 3.
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24 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I must say the way it looks at the moment, if
25 Mr. Nicholson is right, if his recollection is right,
26 although he is prepared to accept he may be wrong, and he
27 if he did only attend 2 meetings, and if they were both at
28 Barlows, it looks as if the idea to have a media exercise
29 was born and got under way, that he was then brought in to
30 give certain information, query whether that was 28th
31 February, and then that he came back, query whether that
32 was the 21st March, when a draft was there to be discussed,
33 but it may not matter too much.
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35 Is there a particular point you are hoping to get in
36 relation to this from Mr. Nicholson?
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38 MR. MORRIS: Because so much is blanked out, it is difficult to
39 see exactly what the content of each meeting was and
40 whether in fact there might be matters which Mr. Nicholson
41 could answer about.
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43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Well, you have only got what is there.
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45 MR. MORRIS: I know.
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I have to say, so many of the questions which
48 might arise on the counterclaim and the defences to it,
49 seem to me not to relate to Mr. Nicholson at all. Some of
50 them may be decided on evidence or inference, but not on
51 Mr. Nicholson's evidence.
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53 MR. MORRIS: Right. Just note page 14. This we did not realise
54 was actually a meeting you actually attended, 28th February
55 or it seems to be. This is dated the same as the previous
56 two sheets which are a report of the meeting on the 28th
57 February with you at the top and Mike Love and others. Do
58 you remember these issues coming up or this seems to be
59 notes taken at the time by somebody, it seems to be Eddie
60 Bensilum's handwriting?
