Day 261 - 12 Jun 96 - Page 26


     
     1        McDonald's this year"?
     2        A.  Nobody said that.
     3
     4   MS. STEEL:  This is after the writs had been served, yes.
     5
     6   MR. RAMPTON:  It reflects, does it not, Mr. Bishop, what you
     7        reported, on I think it was 2nd August or it may have been
     8        13th September, about the plans for those pickets?  It was
     9        2nd August, on page 163.
    10        A.  It is a reflection of that meeting, yes.
    11
    12   MR. RAMPTON:  Perhaps I have the wrong date.  But, anyhow, it is
    13        a reflection of an earlier meeting.  Yes.  Thank you very
    14        much, Mr. Bishop.
    15
    16   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Thank you.  Just leave everything there.
    17        Mr. Bishop, you may be required to come back to court.
    18        I hope it can be avoided, but it is a possibility.
    19
    20                         (The witness withdrew)
    21
    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Are you going to go on to call
    23        Mr. Pocklington?
    24
    25   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, my Lord, I am.
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The Defendants obviously want in as the
    28        inquiry agents' evidence parts of what appear in their
    29        notes but do not appear in their statements which you,
    30        I anticipate, will ask each of them, as you have asked
    31        Mr. Bishop, to affirm.
    32
    33   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes.
    34
    35   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Is there any way we can avoid the need for
    36        Ms. Steel or Mr. Morris having to highlight particular
    37        parts so that they can use them in evidence, without the
    38        need for the inquiry agents to affirm the whole lot, which
    39        may then provoke cross-examination on a variety of matters
    40        which you are not particularly interested in but which
    41        Ms. Steel and Mr. Morris may feel obliged to challenge if
    42        all the notes go in as a fair and accurate account, a true
    43        and accurate account of what happened -- because, on the
    44        one hand, I do not want to have all the notes affirmed in
    45        chief as an accurate account of what happened, because then
    46        I have in evidence an awful lot of stuff which is not going
    47        to help me in relation to the issues in the case; on the
    48        other hand, it would be convenient to avoid putting
    49        Ms. Steel or Mr. Morris to highlighting particular matters
    50        so that they go in as evidence, so that they can rely on 
    51        them. 
    52 
    53        The only possible route I have thought of at the moment is
    54        if you were prepared to admit that, in so far as the
    55        Defendants want to use any parts of any of the notes made
    56        by the inquiry agent or reports made by the agencies, you
    57        are prepared to admit that they are an accurate account of
    58        what the inquiry agent observed.
    59
    60        I cannot think of any other way, and I do not know whether

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