Day 261 - 12 Jun 96 - Page 26
1 McDonald's this year"?
2 A. Nobody said that.
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4 MS. STEEL: This is after the writs had been served, yes.
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6 MR. RAMPTON: It reflects, does it not, Mr. Bishop, what you
7 reported, on I think it was 2nd August or it may have been
8 13th September, about the plans for those pickets? It was
9 2nd August, on page 163.
10 A. It is a reflection of that meeting, yes.
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12 MR. RAMPTON: Perhaps I have the wrong date. But, anyhow, it is
13 a reflection of an earlier meeting. Yes. Thank you very
14 much, Mr. Bishop.
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16 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Thank you. Just leave everything there.
17 Mr. Bishop, you may be required to come back to court.
18 I hope it can be avoided, but it is a possibility.
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20 (The witness withdrew)
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Are you going to go on to call
23 Mr. Pocklington?
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25 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, my Lord, I am.
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The Defendants obviously want in as the
28 inquiry agents' evidence parts of what appear in their
29 notes but do not appear in their statements which you,
30 I anticipate, will ask each of them, as you have asked
31 Mr. Bishop, to affirm.
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33 MR. RAMPTON: Yes.
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35 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Is there any way we can avoid the need for
36 Ms. Steel or Mr. Morris having to highlight particular
37 parts so that they can use them in evidence, without the
38 need for the inquiry agents to affirm the whole lot, which
39 may then provoke cross-examination on a variety of matters
40 which you are not particularly interested in but which
41 Ms. Steel and Mr. Morris may feel obliged to challenge if
42 all the notes go in as a fair and accurate account, a true
43 and accurate account of what happened -- because, on the
44 one hand, I do not want to have all the notes affirmed in
45 chief as an accurate account of what happened, because then
46 I have in evidence an awful lot of stuff which is not going
47 to help me in relation to the issues in the case; on the
48 other hand, it would be convenient to avoid putting
49 Ms. Steel or Mr. Morris to highlighting particular matters
50 so that they go in as evidence, so that they can rely on
51 them.
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53 The only possible route I have thought of at the moment is
54 if you were prepared to admit that, in so far as the
55 Defendants want to use any parts of any of the notes made
56 by the inquiry agent or reports made by the agencies, you
57 are prepared to admit that they are an accurate account of
58 what the inquiry agent observed.
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60 I cannot think of any other way, and I do not know whether
