Day 263 - 14 Jun 96 - Page 62
1 A. Simply because I did not make contemporaneous notes of
2 the events. I think -- I mean, that was completed in May
3 1993. I may have thought I had at that time, but later
4 realised I had not made any contemporaneous notes.
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6 Q. You had a notebook in that meeting, did you not, and you
7 were taking notes of what was going on at that meeting?
8 A. No, I am sure I did not take notes there because I
9 would have thought -- I am sure I would have thought it
10 inappropriate to do so.
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12 Q. You told the meeting that you were a journalist?
13 A. I said I was Jack from Mitcham. I do not recall
14 describing myself in any other way.
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16 Q. I put it to you that you did have a notebook at the
17 meeting, that you told the meeting that you were a
18 journalist and you made notes of the meeting at the time?
19 A. No, I am pretty sure I did not because I would have
20 thought, frankly, it would have been imprudent for me
21 there, in the capacity I was, to make notes. I would have
22 then stood up rather more than I would have wanted to.
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24 Q. But, of course, that would have tallied with your
25 statement?
26 A. It tallies with my statement, yes.
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It does not tally with your statement because
29 you crossed it out and initialled it, but you mean it
30 tallies with the draft which ---
31 A. Yes, I am sorry, my Lord.
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33 Q. -- you were asked to read and correct, if necessary.
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35 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, it says "After the meeting". In fact,
36 even in the draft it says "After the meeting".
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I appreciate that.
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40 MR. MORRIS: So, you told the solicitor that you had made a
41 contemporaneous note?
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43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Is that right or not? Mr. Morris is putting
44 it to you. You cannot tell him that is what he said. Ask
45 him whether he did.
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47 MR. MORRIS: I thought it had been accepted.
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49 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am not sure it has, you see. It might have
50 been from the way Ms. Steel asked her question and the way
51 the answer was given, I quite agree.
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53 MR. MORRIS: Is the situation that you told the solicitor who
54 wrote -- your statement was typed up by the solicitors,
55 yes?
56 A. Yes.
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58 Q. And is it that you told the solicitors that you had made a
59 contemporaneous note and then they put that in; then later
60 you remembered that you had not?
