Day 255 - 23 May 96 - Page 39
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2 MS. STEEL: You never made enquiries of the solicitors to check
3 whether or not they had written, or whether or not a reply
4 had been received?
5 A. No.
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7 Q. On page 2 of the document?
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9 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Back to the front again, Mr. Nicholson.
10 A. Yes?
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12 MS. STEEL: This meeting, it must have been on 1st February
13 1994. We do not seem to have the notes of the meeting of
14 1st February 1994. Do you know whether you attended that
15 meeting?
16 A. No. I cannot remember the dates of the meetings.
17 I attended the first one. I do not know how many took
18 place after that before the next one I attended and that
19 was the one where they produced the draft of the proposed
20 -- I cannot remember whether it was a press release or
21 whether it was -- I think at that time it was probably a
22 press release.
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24 Q. If you just look at page 3?
25 A. Yes.
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27 Q. Does any of that ring a bell with you as being the content
28 of the meeting that you attended, the first meeting that
29 you say about?
30 A. I cannot remember whether that indicates the meeting
31 I attended or not. As I say, the first meeting, as
32 I understand it, I attended was the first meeting of the
33 media group.
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35 Q. You do not remember, for example, point 6 about the letter
36 from Greenpeace, Greenpeace International?
37 A. I know we have that letter but I do not know that ----
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39 Q. You do not remember that being discussed, that McDonald's
40 should get a copy of a letter from them?
41 A. No.
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43 Q. Or should get a letter from them?
44 A. No.
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46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It sounds to me as though you did not give
47 instructions to Scope to get on with an anecdote to what
48 you understood to be Ms. Steel's and Mr. Morris' press
49 efforts?
50 A. No, not at all. I was simply informed that it had been
51 decided.
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53 Q. So you were called in the meeting to give the background
54 that you have said?
55 A. To give the background. That was my role.
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57 Q. Was it any responsibility of yours how they went about it
58 from then on?
59 A. No, no. They obviously asked me to go back to the next
60 one when they discussed this first draft to make sure there
