Day 270 - 28 Jun 96 - Page 28
1 MS. STEEL: I have just got one general question, just that
2 where in your notes you said something about what people
3 have said, would that have been their exact words?
4 A. It would have been my best recollection of what they
5 said. It may not have been their very exact words because
6 it was some hour or so later that I was making my notes. I
7 was not writing it down at the time.
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9 MS. STEEL: No further questions.
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11 Cross-examined by MR. RAMPTON
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13 MR. RAMPTON: Can I ask you a preliminary question. You have
14 signed all these notes?
15 A. Yes.
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17 Q. And on one occasion Michelle Hooker signed what looks like
18 a joint note. And you tell us that you made the note
19 usually when you got home, which would be about an hour
20 after the meeting finished; is that right?
21 A. As far as I can recall, yes.
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23 Q. So, can we be confident that those notes, which are very
24 nearly contemporaneous, are likely to be a more accurate
25 record of what happened than your recollection now, after
26 six years?
27 A. Yes.
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29 Q. Can we also take it that they are, by and large, likely to
30 be pretty accurate? You may have made some errors of
31 detail here and there, but within an hour you are putting
32 down what you observed; is that right?
33 A. Yes.
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35 Q. So, would you agree with me that they are likely to be
36 pretty accurate as a record of what you observed?
37 A. Yes.
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39 Q. Yes, thank you. Only one other thing, please. Could you,
40 Mr. Riley, please give the witness a publication from pink
41 1A. Can you, Mrs. Tiller, keep your notes open. I hope
42 you are on page 26?
43 A. Yes.
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45 Q. Mr. Riley, could you help her with it. Turn to tab 60A.
46 Mr. Riley, could you help by removing that pink bundle and
47 putting it beside the witness, because I want her first to
48 look at what she said in her statement. She needs to look
49 at both things at once.
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51 MS. STEEL: In the statement or the notes?
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53 MR. RAMPTON: I am sorry, in the notes. Mrs. Tiller, you have
54 written in the third paragraph, the big main paragraph in
55 the middle of page 26, this: "The fayre was then discussed
56 and it seemed that most of the arrangements had been made
57 between the main members as to what each one's
58 responsibility was to be in the organisation of the fayre
59 and what their input would be on the day of the fayre. The
60 various topics listed on the fly poster (copy enclosed)
