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.
     4
     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 ----
     9
    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.
    15
    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.
    23
    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.
    34
    35        Is there a particular point you are hoping to get in
    36        relation to this from Mr. Nicholson?
    37
    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.
    42
    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Well, you have only got what is there.
    44
    45   MR. MORRIS:  I know.
    46
    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. 
    52 
    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?

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