Day 262 - 13 Jun 96 - Page 32
1 was writing those reports, I remembered and struck me as
2 worth putting into the reports.
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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.
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9 Q. So that was significant?
10 A. It was new information which I obviously felt was
11 significant at the time, yes.
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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 -----
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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."
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24 You can ask a thousand questions, but are you going to get
25 more than that along these lines?
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27 MR. MORRIS: (To the witness) So, little was discussed of any
28 importance ---
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30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: He has said -----
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32 MR. MORRIS: -- regarding the client company?
33 A. That is what I have written, yes.
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35 Q. OK. You were at that meeting from 7.30 till the end? You
36 arrived at 7.30 and you were there -----
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Please do not underline things we already
39 know.
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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.
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46 Q. Do you have quite good recall?
47 A. Not always, no.
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49 Q. Not always?
50 A. It depends on an issue as to what I remember.
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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
