Day 245 - 07 May 96 - Page 41


     
     1        1996 confirming that what was in your press releases was
     2        incorrect, yes, and on the day before you signed your
     3        statement, the 7th March, you sent the very same press
     4        release to Mr. Ken Livingstone MP making exactly the same
     5        point which you knew was incorrect.
     6        A.  I did not send to Ken Livingstone, someone else did.
     7
     8   Q.   The Company that you are here to represent?
     9        A.  Yes, yes.
    10
    11   Q.   Do you not think that that is reprehensible conduct, that
    12        you know that is something incorrect but you still carried
    13        on sending it out?
    14        A.  I think it is a mistake and it was wrong and it has
    15        been dealt with in accordance with proper procedure, and
    16        I am sorry for that.
    17
    18   MR. MORRIS:  I would like to make some notes.  Would it be
    19        possible to finish a little bit early?.
    20
    21   MS. STEEL:   We have reached a bit of a break anyway.
    22
    23   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Right.  We will resume at 2 o'clock.
    24
    25                        (Luncheon adjournment)
    26
    27   MR. MORRIS:  We are just getting our papers organised.
    28
    29   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Come on, someone has to ask a question.  We
    30        broke off early to try and help you with the getting
    31        yourselves ready.
    32
    33   MS. STEEL:  Mr. Preston, which pickets have you observed of your
    34        Head Office?
    35        A.  I am sorry, which?
    36
    37   Q.   Pickets have you observed?
    38        A.  I have seen 2 or 3 over the last year, year and a half.
    39
    40   Q.   Over the last year and a half.  Have you seen any before
    41        that date?
    42        A.  I am not certain; I may have.
    43
    44   Q.   So, you do not remember seeing any pickets before that
    45        date?
    46        A.  No.
    47
    48   Q.   That is not to say they did not happen; I am just asking
    49        you what you have seen?
    50        A.  I remember seeing 2 or 3 in the last year, year and a 
    51        half.  Before that, I do not recall. 
    52 
    53   Q.   So when you say in your statement about trying to remember
    54        where it is, having witnessed us demonstrating outside
    55        McDonald's Head Office, you are talking about within the
    56        last year, year and a half?
    57        A.  I have certainly seen that.  It may have seen previous
    58        as well, I cannot recall.
    59
    60   Q.   But when you say it in your statement.  It is paragraph 21?

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