Day 164 - 26 Sep 95 - Page 45
1 the notes refer to -- well, to be honest I just think it is
2 quite plain that all the notes are referring to what went
3 on at the meetings, what they say went at the meetings.
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Give me an example, because all I have done
6 is glanced, I will not pretend to have read them through,
7 at where they stop and then start again?
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9 MS. STEEL: If you turn to the notes of Mr. Bishop ----
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Remind me where I find that?
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13 MS. STEEL: I think they are in yellow bundle 2 tab 8 because
14 they are the new ones. They should be at the back.
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16 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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18 MS. STEEL: For example, on the notes of 24th May he
19 says, "I attended this week's meeting". Then there is a
20 paragraph there and then a whole blanked out bit. Then it
21 says, "A few minutes later Jane arrived." Then on the
22 following page, well, the paragraph at the bottom of the
23 page, the first page goes over to the second page --
24 incidentally what is written we consider to be absolute
25 rubbish but that is by the by -- underneath the two lines
26 at the top of the second page there is a blanked out space
27 and then it says: "The only other item that received any
28 attention was a red invoice from British Telecom." It is
29 clear there that he has been writing about what has been
30 going on at the meeting. Then following on from that there
31 is another blanked out passage, and it says: "At the end of
32 this phase of the meeting Helen She of the Bank Account
33 arrived." Clearly that was talking about what was going
34 on at the meeting, the bit that was blanked out.
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36 As I say, if you go through the notes of 14th June and the
37 other meetings, all the blanks, it is quite clear, are
38 talking about what is going on at the meetings, well, what
39 they say is going on at the meetings. For example, the
40 notes of 14th June, I do not know whether you have them?
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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44 MS. STEEL: It starts with: "I arrived at Caledonian Road
45 offices at 1940 hours", and then there is a massive big
46 blank. Then there is a brief paragraph about the beginning
47 of the meeting and McDonald's. Then there is another
48 passage that has been blanked out. Then there is something
49 about the Group's building society account. Then there is
50 an absolutely massive blanked out part. Then it goes on to
51 say: "Also during the course of the evening a telephone
52 call was received from the musicians' union." Clearly the
53 correspondence received and the thing about McDonald's
54 Restaurants and the World Wildlife Fund and the Group's
55 building society account and phone call from the musicians'
56 union were not the only things that went on that night.
57 The rest of the notes quite clearly must be about
58 Mr. Bishop's version of what happened at that meeting.
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60 There is then a paragraph that is blanked out after the bit
