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1 A. That is correct.
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3 Q. So, is that something you felt was a significant piece of
4 information to identify, in your investigations? That is
5 something you retained a continuing interest in?
6 A. It was something I noted at the time in whatever
7 particular reports you are referring to.
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9 Q. But is that something that you would have note if you heard
10 anything to the contrary?
11 A. To the contrary of the information I have put in
12 there?
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14 Q. Yes -- or did you just put selective stuff down?
15 A. Well, I have put selective stuff down. I could not
16 transcribe a whole meeting. It was of course selective.
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18 Q. What I am saying is, if you put down something and then, at
19 a different week, somebody said something different -----
20 A. If there was some glaring contradiction to some
21 information I had previously heard, then I would have
22 attempted to remember that and make a note of that, yes.
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24 Q. In general, things that may be relevant to McDonald's and
25 to me and Helen, i.e. if me and Helen spoke about
26 McDonald's, that would be something that you would have
27 noted in your reports in general?
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We have been through this on a number of
30 occasions. It seems to me that Mr. Pocklington's answer
31 amounts to, probably -- that is not to say he definitely
32 would -- he would have probably written it down if he had
33 remembered it, when he got to write his note; that is what
34 his evidence is.
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36 MR. MORRIS: That was the purpose of you attending those
37 meetings, to remember things like that?
38 A. I was never given specific people to concentrate on.
39 I was never told that you and Helen Steel were the two
40 people that I should be concentrating on. Nothing was ever
41 said to me like that. It was for me to report on what
42 happened at meetings.
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44 Q. This meeting was attended by me; and, apart from -- the
45 only other meeting you definitely recall me attending
46 before that was way back in October 1989. So, anything
47 that I said would have been particularly worthy of note,
48 because you had nothing else concrete from my mouth; would
49 you accept that?
50 A. No, I would not accept that. You seem to be making an
51 assumption that I had been given you as a specific target
52 that I had to go after. That is not the case. My function
53 was there was to report on what happened at meetings.
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55 Q. I understand that. But, I mean, if you were doing your job
56 and you felt that I was some kind of significant person,
57 but in fact you had never actually seen me at any meetings,
58 then this was some opportunity to get down something that
59 I had actually said?
60 A. What I included in my reports were things which, as I
