Day 248 - 13 May 96 - Page 56
1
2 Q. The leaflet that is the subject of this libel action?
3 A. Well, I read the document in its whole and it said
4 'Regardless of the results of the verdict, continued to
5 circulate'. I took it as in its entirety.
6
7 Q. No, continued to circulate the truth, but you assumed that
8 it was talking about the fact sheet which is the subject of
9 this action here and now, the libel action?
10 A. That certainly was in my mind.
11
12 Q. Right. OK. That is it.
13
14 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Thank you. Thank you Mr. Preston.
15
16 (The witness withdrew)
17
18 I would like Mr. Glen can bring them up to my room. If
19 Mr. Riley would be kind enough to make a copy of that page
20 7 and then you can have those back.
21
22 MS. STEEL: That is fine.
23
24 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If you can make a photocopy of The Financial
25 Times article, it does not matter that it has some
26 highlighting on it.
27
28 MR. RAMPTON: Would your Lordship like to have a complete copy
29 of that?
30
31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think it might be helpful. I have got some
32 pages copied already which you handed to me the other day.
33
34 MR. RAMPTON: Yes. Of course, it was on a number of
35 restaurants, but it has a nice picture of Mr Cantaloupe and
36 others, so we may want you to see those things.
37
38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If I do have it, I would like to keep it
39 entirely as my own.
40
41 MR. RAMPTON: Certainly.
42
43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Because I may mark it just as I have marked
44 my own copy with the students information pack.
45
46 MS. STEEL: Can I say something? When we were arguing on
47 Friday about Mr. Nicholson giving evidence tomorrow, and
48 I am not, although I would like you to go back on your
49 decision that is not why I am bringing it up now, I just
50 wanted to say something about what has been said, which is
51 just that our situation is certainly not that we are trying
52 to make a mockery of the court, and I wanted to say the day
53 we had off last week there was the bank holiday and then
54 there was the second day that we had off last week which
55 was to suit Mr. Preston's convenience, not ours, and that
56 the day that we do not sit this week is so that I can
57 attend a funeral. Basically, I would have thought that
58 there cannot be any criticism of that from anybody in terms
59 of people thinking we are treating this as a joke or
60 whatever, because as far as I am aware it is standard
