Day 173 - 16 Oct 95 - Page 24
1 A. What issues do you mean?
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3 Q. Other issues -- I mean, it was just that you said "legal
4 issues particularly".
5 A. Well -----
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7 Q. Other issues surrounding the strike?
8 A. No, no. He was dealing with the solicitor and the
9 barristers, which I had no experience of dealing with at
10 that point in time.
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12 Q. Was that early on in the dispute that he came over, then?
13 A. I cannot recall exactly. I do not believe it was.
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15 Q. Your recollection, then, is that it was a couple of months
16 into the strike, something like that?
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can you help, because you said you could not
19 recall exactly, you believe it was earlier than the strike?
20 A. Well -----
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22 MS. STEEL: I thought he said he did not believe.
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24 THE WITNESS: It certainly was not immediately when the strike
25 happened. It might have been a month.
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27 MS. STEEL: So if it was a month or so after the dispute
28 started, that would have been after you had already got the
29 High Court injunction?
30 A. Yes. The High Court injunction was towards -----
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32 Q. It was at the beginning of April.
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34 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Why not ask because, you see, that is the sort
35 of thing which might help. Instead of having what appears
36 at the moment to be a guess and then say, well, that means
37 it must have been before or after this date, why not put
38 something like the High Court injunction as a date, and
39 then ask whether it was before or after that.
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41 MS. STEEL: Was it before or after the High Court injunction
42 that Mr. Stein came over; do you remember?
43 A. There were a few High Court injunctions.
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45 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The first one you got; was it before or after
46 you first went to court to get some kind of order
47 restraining picketing?
48 A. I think it was after that, my Lord.
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50 MS. STEEL: Who had arranged the getting of the first High
51 Court injunction; was that you?
52 A. Yes. I would have contacted our solicitors and they
53 would have arranged it.
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55 Q. So you did have contact with solicitors and barristers and
56 dealings with them before Mr. Stein arrived?
57 A. Well, only on a very small basis, for reasons of
58 property and that type of matter.
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60 Q. And to get the injunction?
