Day 249 - 14 May 96 - Page 67


     
     1        court, and I cannot remember them all.  Pocklington is one;
     2        Bishop is one; Clare, of course, who I met, and I did learn
     3        the other one's name but it escapes me for the moment.
     4
     5   Q.   But you were aware there were more private investigators
     6        than that?
     7        A.  Yes.
     8
     9   Q.   Some of them were female?
    10        A.  I did not know that some of them were female.
    11
    12   Q.   You were aware that some of them attended demonstrations?
    13        A.  No.  Oh, did I?  If it went in their report then I did.
    14
    15   Q.   Including pickets of the Head Office?
    16        A.  If it went in the report I did.  It is years since
    17        I read their reports.
    18
    19   Q.   The Company reports this was, the ones from the ----
    20        A.  Agents, yes.  The agents' reports.
    21
    22   Q.   The agents' reports?
    23        A.  Yes.
    24
    25   Q.   Right.  The notes that are all behind ----
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Did you say 'agents' or 'agency'?
    28        A.  Agency's reports.
    29
    30   MS. STEEL:  The notes that are behind the private investigators'
    31        statement, you saw them?
    32        A.  Only recently, but, you know, that is after they had
    33        been taken.  Mrs. Brinley-Codd had taken their statements,
    34        I have not read their statements.
    35
    36   Q.   At any rate, you were receiving reports every week from the
    37        companies and so you would have been aware that at least
    38        one of the operatives was attending monthly pickets outside
    39        McDonald's in -- Dalston, I think it was?
    40        A.  I cannot remember.
    41
    42   Q.   Do you remember receiving reports about pickets of other
    43        stores, not just Head Office?
    44        A.  I really cannot remember.  I mean, I would accept that
    45        they did but I cannot remember whether it was in the
    46        report.  As I say, it is years since I read their reports.
    47
    48   Q.   And that those private investigators were handing out
    49        leaflets on those protests?
    50        A.  I cannot remember. 
    51 
    52   Q.   So, you may well have read that? 
    53        A.  I may have done.
    54
    55   Q.   Right.
    56
    57   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, can I intervene.  This may not be the
    58        right moment but I would like to do it while I remember.
    59        I am not disposed, if I can avoid it, to wait until
    60        Ms. Steel at her leisure during the break makes a further

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