Day 259 - 10 Jun 96 - Page 78


     
     1   MR. MORRIS:  Can I say, for administrative purposes, I have put
     2        mine in date order, all my notes.
     3
     4   MS. STEEL:  Both of us have.
     5
     6   MR. MORRIS:  Both of us have.  It makes it a lot easier to
     7        follow and we have done that for all the witnesses.
     8
     9   MS. STEEL:   It was, basically, the only way we could tell which
    10        ones had already been disclosed.
    11
    12   MR. RAMPTON:  Mr. Bishop, for most of the meetings that you went
    13        to -- in fact, all but this one -- we have what we
    14        understand to be notes either written in hand on one
    15        occasion or typed by you subsequently?
    16        A.  Yes.
    17
    18   Q.   Before I ask you to look at this Kings Investigation
    19        document, what sort of time lapse would there be between
    20        your leaving the meeting as a rule and making the notes
    21        upon which your statements are based?
    22        A.  As I left each meeting I made verbal notes into a memo
    23        tape recorder as I drove back to my base.  If the night was
    24        not too late I would type them that night and, at the
    25        latest, the following morning.  I would then post them off
    26        to Kings' office.
    27
    28   Q.   Right.  It was a hand-held dictating machine, was it?
    29        A.  Yes, it was.
    30
    31   Q.   What did you do with the tapes?
    32        A.  I did not keep them; I reused the tape.
    33
    34   Q.   Yes.  If you just look at this Kings' Investigation Bureau
    35        Limited thing.  This is not, in fact, as we understand it
    36        at least, a note made by you because you have not got any
    37        notes of that particular day -- you did not keep any for
    38        some reason -- it comes from Kings and I think it was sent
    39        to the solicitors?
    40        A.  Yes.
    41
    42   Q.   How would those Kings' reports be composed or compiled?  In
    43        this case, how would this have been made?
    44        A.  As far as I am aware, the Kings' reports were almost
    45        word for word the same as the reports that I submitted to
    46        them, as far as my reports were concerned.
    47
    48   Q.   Would you have actually written this yourself, this
    49        document?
    50        A.  No, I would not have written this document. 
    51 
    52   Q.   You would not? 
    53        A.  No.
    54
    55   Q.   My Lord, what I have just been doing may turn out to be
    56        unnecessary because I am told that the actual notes have
    57        now been found and they have just arrived.  I will, or
    58        Mr. Atkinson, will look at them overnight and will bring
    59        them in, if necessary, to court in the morning.
    60        I apologise for that, Mr. Bishop, but I did not know they

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