Day 245 - 07 May 96 - Page 41
1 1996 confirming that what was in your press releases was
2 incorrect, yes, and on the day before you signed your
3 statement, the 7th March, you sent the very same press
4 release to Mr. Ken Livingstone MP making exactly the same
5 point which you knew was incorrect.
6 A. I did not send to Ken Livingstone, someone else did.
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8 Q. The Company that you are here to represent?
9 A. Yes, yes.
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11 Q. Do you not think that that is reprehensible conduct, that
12 you know that is something incorrect but you still carried
13 on sending it out?
14 A. I think it is a mistake and it was wrong and it has
15 been dealt with in accordance with proper procedure, and
16 I am sorry for that.
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18 MR. MORRIS: I would like to make some notes. Would it be
19 possible to finish a little bit early?.
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21 MS. STEEL: We have reached a bit of a break anyway.
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Right. We will resume at 2 o'clock.
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25 (Luncheon adjournment)
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27 MR. MORRIS: We are just getting our papers organised.
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Come on, someone has to ask a question. We
30 broke off early to try and help you with the getting
31 yourselves ready.
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33 MS. STEEL: Mr. Preston, which pickets have you observed of your
34 Head Office?
35 A. I am sorry, which?
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37 Q. Pickets have you observed?
38 A. I have seen 2 or 3 over the last year, year and a half.
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40 Q. Over the last year and a half. Have you seen any before
41 that date?
42 A. I am not certain; I may have.
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44 Q. So, you do not remember seeing any pickets before that
45 date?
46 A. No.
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48 Q. That is not to say they did not happen; I am just asking
49 you what you have seen?
50 A. I remember seeing 2 or 3 in the last year, year and a
51 half. Before that, I do not recall.
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53 Q. So when you say in your statement about trying to remember
54 where it is, having witnessed us demonstrating outside
55 McDonald's Head Office, you are talking about within the
56 last year, year and a half?
57 A. I have certainly seen that. It may have seen previous
58 as well, I cannot recall.
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60 Q. But when you say it in your statement. It is paragraph 21?
