Day 184 - 06 Nov 95 - Page 57
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2 Q. He made the arrangements, then?
3 A. As far as I know, yes.
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you know who made the arrangements?
6 A. Like, no. I am pretty sure Chris Broom did -- like,
7 90 per cent for sure -- because he was the one applying for
8 legal aid for the lawyers. So I would assume he is the one
9 who did it.
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11 MR. MORRIS: He went to see them first?
12 A. Yes.
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14 Q. Who did you ask about who was paying the lawyers?
15 A. I asked Chris Broom, because he was the one who kept in
16 contact with them.
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18 Q. He did not know?
19 A. And he said that we would wait until the end of
20 everything, see how much it was going to cost us, maybe we
21 could like -- he was just coming up with options. He said,
22 "Let's wait till the end and then we will figure it out.
23 Either we will pool our money together or see if the
24 parents could help us, or we will do something."
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26 Q. At the end, or whenever you felt it appropriate to ask
27 about this matter, what was the result of your inquiries
28 then?
29 A. Chris Broom said that they were already paid for, and
30 I said, "By whom", and he said he did not know. So we had
31 assumed that it was -- that it was the parents; they had
32 gotten together to pay for it.
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34 Q. These lawyers, Parkinson and Parkinson and Pugsley, they
35 were instructed on your behalf for a period of about six
36 months, seven months, from October until the result of the
37 ballot in February -- about four or five months; yes?
38 A. Mr. Pugsley did. He is the one who came.
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40 Q. Mr. Pugsley did?
41 A. Right.
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43 Q. He is the one who helped to draft up all these hundreds of
44 pages of documents which we have seen, yes, for the Labour
45 Board hearings; yes?
46 A. I do not -- I guess so, yes.
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48 Q. The lawyers did that?
49 A. Yes, the lawyers did it, and he was our lawyer,
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52 Q. They met all the intervenors?
53 A. I am not sure if he met with all of them. I mean, he
54 met with me, and he drove me down to court and he drove me
55 back to the Labour Board and he drove me back home, but
56 I am not -- I mean, I did not ask everybody else if they
57 had met him.
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59 Q. Just how long did the hearings go on for; how many days did
60 the hearings go on for, the Labour Board hearings, do you
