Day 259 - 10 Jun 96 - Page 78
1 MR. MORRIS: Can I say, for administrative purposes, I have put
2 mine in date order, all my notes.
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4 MS. STEEL: Both of us have.
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6 MR. MORRIS: Both of us have. It makes it a lot easier to
7 follow and we have done that for all the witnesses.
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9 MS. STEEL: It was, basically, the only way we could tell which
10 ones had already been disclosed.
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12 MR. RAMPTON: Mr. Bishop, for most of the meetings that you went
13 to -- in fact, all but this one -- we have what we
14 understand to be notes either written in hand on one
15 occasion or typed by you subsequently?
16 A. Yes.
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18 Q. Before I ask you to look at this Kings Investigation
19 document, what sort of time lapse would there be between
20 your leaving the meeting as a rule and making the notes
21 upon which your statements are based?
22 A. As I left each meeting I made verbal notes into a memo
23 tape recorder as I drove back to my base. If the night was
24 not too late I would type them that night and, at the
25 latest, the following morning. I would then post them off
26 to Kings' office.
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28 Q. Right. It was a hand-held dictating machine, was it?
29 A. Yes, it was.
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31 Q. What did you do with the tapes?
32 A. I did not keep them; I reused the tape.
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34 Q. Yes. If you just look at this Kings' Investigation Bureau
35 Limited thing. This is not, in fact, as we understand it
36 at least, a note made by you because you have not got any
37 notes of that particular day -- you did not keep any for
38 some reason -- it comes from Kings and I think it was sent
39 to the solicitors?
40 A. Yes.
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42 Q. How would those Kings' reports be composed or compiled? In
43 this case, how would this have been made?
44 A. As far as I am aware, the Kings' reports were almost
45 word for word the same as the reports that I submitted to
46 them, as far as my reports were concerned.
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48 Q. Would you have actually written this yourself, this
49 document?
50 A. No, I would not have written this document.
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52 Q. You would not?
53 A. No.
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55 Q. My Lord, what I have just been doing may turn out to be
56 unnecessary because I am told that the actual notes have
57 now been found and they have just arrived. I will, or
58 Mr. Atkinson, will look at them overnight and will bring
59 them in, if necessary, to court in the morning.
60 I apologise for that, Mr. Bishop, but I did not know they
