Day 262 - 13 Jun 96 - Page 02
1 Thursday, 13th June, 1996
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3 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I think your Lordship knows that the
4 argument will not be till two o'clock. I am quite happy
5 with that.
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7 The other thing is this: I ought to tell your Lordship that
8 we propose to change the order of our publication witnesses
9 to this extent, that, since it is clear to us that
10 Mr. Pocklington may not even finish today, since
11 Mr. Russell has already made arrangements to come up and
12 stay overnight in London in preparation for tomorrow, and
13 since that would mean that even if we finished Mr. Russell
14 tomorrow (which I hope we shall) we would only just get
15 started with Mr. Clare and he would be cutting -- sorry, I
16 have put it wrongly -- if we start Mr. Clare tomorrow, we
17 shall not finish him. We would not reach Mr. Russell.
18 I am proposing to call Mr. Russell tomorrow as arranged,
19 and to try and bring Mr. Clare in next week on Tuesday or
20 Wednesday.
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. Well, if it is possible to finish
23 Mr. Pocklington this morning, well and good. Let us see
24 how we go.
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26 ANTONY ROY POCKLINGTON, recalled
27 Cross-examination by the Defendants, continued
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29 MS. STEEL: We had finished 2nd November; is that right?
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Well, I think you have, because my last set
32 of notes are in relation to 2nd November, and I think we
33 went on until you said you had finished that particular
34 day.
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36 MS. STEEL: OK. If you could find the notes of 9th November,
37 please? I realised I have not actually got -----
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is page 26.
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41 MS. STEEL: Sorry. It is my notes of questions that I have not
42 got out.
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44 (To the witness) You have made a note that at this meeting
45 Jan, Jane was there, John was there, me, Ben, Ollie, Dave;
46 and you said that Jonathan made a brief appearance and was
47 very vocal for the short time he was present; yes? Sorry,
48 the "Dave" that was referred to in there is not Mr. Morris;
49 it is another Dave. Then, at 8.15 p.m., Paul Gravett
50 arrived; is that right?
51 A. That is correct, yes.
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53 Q. "The meeting was very brief and client company were
54 mentioned rarely." Then there is reference to the letter
55 stage of the meeting. That is a correct note, is it, of
56 the meeting; you would stand by what you have written
57 there, that the meeting was very brief and the client
58 company (i.e. McDonald's) were mentioned only rarely?
59 A. Yes, yes.
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