Day 262 - 13 Jun 96 - Page 32


     
     1        was writing those reports, I remembered and struck me as
     2        worth putting into the reports.
     3
     4   Q.   You have commented, for example, on me and my domestic
     5        circumstances, about my partner's broken leg and my child's
     6        broken leg and wrists; yes?
     7        A.  I have.
     8
     9   Q.   So that was significant?
    10        A.  It was new information which I obviously felt was
    11        significant at the time, yes.
    12
    13   Q.   But you remember that in some detail.  But what I am saying
    14        is, if I had been saying anything else at that meeting of
    15        great significance, such as, you know, "I am the organiser
    16        of the anti-McDonald's campaign", something like that -----
    17
    18   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you really need to ask this?  I mean, if
    19        you have a good point along those lines, if you have,
    20        I would have thought that you do not need more than: "Due
    21        to the lack of numbers and lack of essential people at the
    22        meetings, little was discussed of any importance."
    23
    24        You can ask a thousand questions, but are you going to get
    25        more than that along these lines?
    26
    27   MR. MORRIS:  (To the witness)  So, little was discussed of any
    28        importance ---
    29
    30   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  He has said -----
    31
    32   MR. MORRIS:  -- regarding the client company?
    33        A.  That is what I have written, yes.
    34
    35   Q.   OK.  You were at that meeting from 7.30 till the end?  You
    36        arrived at 7.30 and you were there -----
    37
    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Please do not underline things we already
    39        know.
    40
    41   MR. MORRIS:  All right.  Can I just ask one question?  You are a
    42        professional investigator.  When you attend meetings, are
    43        you alert to the conversation?
    44        A.  I try to be alert to the conversation.
    45
    46   Q.   Do you have quite good recall?
    47        A.  Not always, no.
    48
    49   Q.   Not always?
    50        A.  It depends on an issue as to what I remember. 
    51 
    52   Q.   If it is relevant to the job you are doing ----- 
    53        A.  By this time in the investigation, I had attended a lot
    54        of meetings; and my tendency in writing reports would not
    55        have been to repeat information that I felt I had included
    56        in earlier reports.  So, therefore, unless something struck
    57        me as unusual or out of the ordinary or a change of
    58        direction, it is quite possible I would not have included
    59        it in the report.  So if I felt you were maintaining a line
    60        or one member of the group was maintaining a line that they

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