Day 270 - 28 Jun 96 - Page 28


     
     1   MS. STEEL:  I have just got one general question, just that
     2        where in your notes you said something about what people
     3        have said, would that have been their exact words?
     4        A.  It would have been my best recollection of what they
     5        said.  It may not have been their very exact words because
     6        it was some hour or so later that I was making my notes.  I
     7        was not writing it down at the time.
     8
     9   MS. STEEL:  No further questions.
    10
    11                    Cross-examined by MR. RAMPTON
    12
    13   MR. RAMPTON:  Can I ask you a preliminary question.  You have
    14        signed all these notes?
    15        A.  Yes.
    16
    17   Q.   And on one occasion Michelle Hooker signed what looks like
    18        a joint note.  And you tell us that you made the note
    19        usually when you got home, which would be about an hour
    20        after the meeting finished; is that right?
    21        A.  As far as I can recall, yes.
    22
    23   Q.   So, can we be confident that those notes, which are very
    24        nearly contemporaneous, are likely to be a more accurate
    25        record of what happened than your recollection now, after
    26        six years?
    27        A.  Yes.
    28
    29   Q.   Can we also take it that they are, by and large, likely to
    30        be pretty accurate?  You may have made some errors of
    31        detail here and there, but within an hour you are putting
    32        down what you observed; is that right?
    33        A.  Yes.
    34
    35   Q.   So, would you agree with me that they are likely to be
    36        pretty accurate as a record of what you observed?
    37        A.  Yes.
    38
    39   Q.   Yes, thank you.  Only one other thing, please.  Could you,
    40        Mr. Riley, please give the witness a publication from pink
    41        1A.  Can you, Mrs. Tiller, keep your notes open.  I hope
    42        you are on page 26?
    43        A.  Yes.
    44
    45   Q.   Mr. Riley, could you help her with it.  Turn to tab 60A.
    46        Mr. Riley, could you help by removing that pink bundle and
    47        putting it beside the witness, because I want her first to
    48        look at what she said in her statement.  She needs to look
    49        at both things at once.
    50 
    51   MS. STEEL:  In the statement or the notes? 
    52 
    53   MR. RAMPTON:  I am sorry, in the notes.  Mrs. Tiller, you have
    54        written in the third paragraph, the big main paragraph in
    55        the middle of page 26, this:  "The fayre was then discussed
    56        and it seemed that most of the arrangements had been made
    57        between the main members as to what each one's
    58        responsibility was to be in the organisation of the fayre
    59        and what their input would be on the day of the fayre.  The
    60        various topics listed on the fly poster (copy enclosed)

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