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.
    26
    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.
    45
    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.
    56
    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

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