Day 259 - 10 Jun 96 - Page 25
1 Q. Unfortunately, mine are not in the same order as yours, but
2 I have a page which is dated 27/4, which says "Sid
3 Nicholson from....."
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5 MR. RAMPTON: No. It is "phoned from".
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7 MS. STEEL: Sorry. "....re BBC Wildlife on One programme of
8 26/4"?
9 A. Yes.
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11 Q. So, do you recollect that now?
12 A. Recollect what: the fact that we took action against
13 BBC? Absolutely, I remember it quite clearly.
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15 Q. You were involved in that?
16 A. Yes. But I am afraid I do not know anything about this
17 matter.
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What it looks as if happened is,
20 Mr. Nicholson telephoned, and then whoever was making these
21 attendance notes or a colleague spoke to Mr. Walker at
22 McKey on the phone, and he hand delivered the Vestey
23 letter, and then Mr. Nicholson came round, and then
24 Mr. Nicholson came with McDonald's Canada file.
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26 THE WITNESS: Yes.
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28 MR. MORRIS: Canada file?
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30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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32 MS. STEEL: But there is one before that, saying "SN came to
33 the house with video and McDonald's UK...."
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35 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am not reading it all out. I am just
36 saying a lot was going on. It was not just Mr. Nicholson
37 who was giving information; Mr. Walker was, as well.
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39 MS. STEEL: Right. (To the witness) So, the other page then,
40 you are saying that was not information from you?
41 A. What, that second page?
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43 Q. Yes.
44 A. What I am calling the second page, the one headed
45 "UK"?
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47 Q. Yes.
48 A. I know nothing about intervention beef and stuff like
49 that; it is just not my subject. I could not have given
50 Ian Jenkins that. I do not know it.
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52 Q. You knew about the preparations for legal action?
53 A. Yes.
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55 Q. So, you would have been told, unless your solicitors were
56 keeping things from you, about what Mr. Walker had said?
57 A. Well, I take it they did, yes. I feel pretty sure they
58 would have done. But I mean, I do not know anything about
59 intervention beef. What I was interested in was the
60 programme.
