Day 263 - 14 Jun 96 - Page 61
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2 Q. Because you actually signed the statement today confirming
3 that that was correct?
4 A. Yes, I have done that.
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6 Q. So, Mr. Bishop may be quite right and you may have attended
7 a meeting which he was at?
8 A. I did not attend any meetings Mr. Bishop was at.
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10 Q. How can you say that?
11 A. Because I know Mr. Bishop by sight.
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13 Q. You know Mr. Bishop?
14 A. By sight, yes.
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16 Q. How long have you known Mr. Bishop?
17 A. I knew him as someone who appeared in the office when
18 I did in 1990 from time to time. I would recognise him.
19 I do not know him well, but I certainly did not attend any
20 meetings that he did or this meeting I attended he was not
21 at, and, as I have said to you, I did not attend any other
22 meetings anyway.
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24 Q. If you knew him from 1993 it is quite possible that the
25 first time you met him was at a London Greenpeace meeting
26 in 1990 and neither of you knew each other at that time;
27 yes?
28 A. Well, I attended one meeting, I am sure. I do not
29 think Mr. Bishop was at that meeting.
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31 Q. But you may have attended other meetings and it may be that
32 Mr. Bishop was at those?
33 A. No. I must say again, I did not attend other meetings,
34 any other meetings.
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36 Q. So, you are changing your mind?
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is dissolving into an argument now, I am
39 afraid. You ask your questions and rely on your material
40 in due course, but I think we are just going backwards and
41 forwards now.
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43 MS. STEEL: I was going to ask a question about your -----
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45 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If there was a specific other meeting which
46 you have in mind, put it.
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48 MS. STEEL: I do not know the date of it, but I am just taking
49 it from what Mr. Bishop said. (To the witness): Your
50 statement, paragraph 10, please.
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The first statement.
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54 MS. STEEL: The first statement.
55 A. Yes.
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57 Q. Originally, the statement says, "After the meeting I made a
58 contemporaneous note of the events that had taken place at
59 the meeting which is annexed to the statement marked
60 'JR3'." Why is that crossed out?
