Day 263 - 14 Jun 96 - Page 66
1 you only attended one meeting?
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, it is clearly not that.
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5 MS. STEEL: Have you been to a lot of political meetings?
6 A. I have been to all sorts of meetings.
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8 Q. But have you been to a lot of this type of meeting -- not
9 board meetings, or what have you, but meetings of political
10 or campaigning groups?
11 A. No, I am talking about administration meetings.
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13 Q. So, you had not been to any other political meetings or
14 campaigning meetings then, is what you are referring to?
15 A. Of London Greenpeace, no.
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17 Q. What about other similar types of groups?
18 A. No, no, I have not.
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20 Q. How would you know that it would be unusual to turn up with
21 a notebook and say that you were a journalist and that it
22 would not be a sensible thing to do?
23 A. I have said I think it would have been foolish for me
24 to take notes at meetings. I would have shown out.
25 I would have shown too much interest. I relied upon my
26 memory for the report.
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28 Q. So that was something you decided when you were there; it
29 was not something you decided before you went?
30 A. I cannot remember when I decided it. I should think
31 probably before I went.
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33 Q. It may have been that you took a notebook with you?
34 A. No, I did not take a notebook with me.
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36 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let us just leave it there. You say you are
37 going to call evidence, so I will hear that evidence in due
38 course.
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40 MS. STEEL: OK.
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42 MR. MORRIS: Were you listening to the evidence of
43 Mr. Pocklington?
44 A. I probably heard about 45 minutes of it, yes.
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46 Q. So did you hear him talking about the last meeting that he
47 went to, that we were going through? Do you remember him
48 talking about any specific meeting that he had been to?
49 A. I think he talked about several, did he not?
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51 Q. Yes, OK. Do you remember -- can you give us some details
52 about what he said?
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54 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I really do wonder what -----
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56 MR. MORRIS: I am testing the witness's memory.
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No. That is a hopeless test. It really is.
59 It is no -----
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