Day 265 - 19 Jun 96 - Page 76


     
     1   MS. STEEL:  The problem is I did not mark these as I read them
     2        and I read them in an extreme hurry.
     3
     4   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Are you sure of the date that it was the 20th
     5        September?
     6
     7   MS. STEEL:   No, I am not.  I thought it was, but -----
     8
     9   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, it is page 6 in the top right-hand
    10        corner.  It is 20th September.  It is the last report.  I
    11        have it here.  It is out of a paragraph.  It was confirmed
    12        that "there is to be a picket outside the Bank of England
    13        between noon and 2 pm on the 25th September, 1990.  Helen
    14        is to print 4,000 leaflets", is what that says.
    15
    16   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Where do we go from there, because if you are
    17        prepared to make an admission in respect of that, then
    18        there is no need for Mr. Bishop to come back.
    19
    20   MR. RAMPTON:  I would have to think about that because I cannot
    21        remember the context of this other assertion -- something
    22        about the printing of the leaflets of the London Greenpeace
    23        Fayre.  My Lord, in any event, even if I were not prepared
    24        to make an admission about that, and I do not want to make
    25        it on the spot, does your Lordship really need to hear Mr.
    26        Bishop?
    27
    28   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Quite frankly, I would have thought not
    29        because he cannot help me as to what is in someone else's
    30        note.  You are merely putting to him a comment to ask his
    31        judgment on it when you should really be putting it to me,
    32        do you see?
    33
    34   MS. STEEL:  Can we refer to these notes if there is not a
    35        witness here?
    36
    37   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, of course you can.  You can say they
    38        have been discovered as reports made by Kings on the basis
    39        of number 5, Miss Tiller Davidson's notes, and 6, Miss
    40        Hooker's notes, and therefore you can say I can infer from
    41        that that they noted down the reference which you have
    42        taken me to.
    43
    44   MS. STEEL:  Right, because we do not want to accept everything
    45        in their notes.
    46
    47   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You can say if you put that against the fact
    48        that the witness was prepared to accept the possibility
    49        that they were IMF leaflets and not antiMcDonald's ones,
    50        albeit that he went on to say, "But since I noted it as I 
    51        did I think it was McDonald's", I should not attach any 
    52        weight to that, even on balance of probability. 
    53
    54        That is my feeling at the moment.  Do you challenge that,
    55        Mr. Rampton?
    56
    57   MR. RAMPTON:  No.  I think, if I may respectfully say so, it is
    58        the right way of approaching it.  It is all comment.
    59
    60   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is all reasoning from the fact of this

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