Day 122 - 05 May 95 - Page 10
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2 Q. Was that at a later date that you suggested that?
3 A. No, I did not suggest that.
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5 Q. Or the decision was made, sorry?
6 A. I believe so, but how much later I do not know, or
7 I cannot remember.
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9 Q. When you sign and date statements, do you always put the
10 date that you ---
11 A. I sign it.
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13 Q. -- are signing it?
14 A. Yes.
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16 Q. The second statement, the one without the paragraphs about
17 Mark Hopkins ---
18 A. Yes.
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20 Q. -- is it your recollection you signed that at a later date?
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can we go back a bit? Do you have a
23 recollection now of signing a statement and then being
24 given another, not the one which came perhaps a year
25 later ---
26 A. Yes, I do.
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28 Q. -- of a Court of Appeal hearing, but another one which was
29 modified to some extent?
30 A. Yes.
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32 Q. You do remember?
33 A. I signed the first statement. That went back to
34 Barlows. I think it was fairly swiftly afterwards that
35 they made the decision to call Jill Barnes to deal with the
36 Mark Hopkins affair, because I had no personal knowledge of
37 it. The statement was retyped and sent back to me.
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39 MS. STEEL: So the first statement that you signed was
40 definitely the one that included the passages about Mark
41 Hopkins?
42 A. Yes.
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44 Q. When you say "fairly swiftly afterwards" what are you
45 talking about?
46 A. I cannot remember.
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48 Q. A week or what?
49 A. I would not like to mislead you. I cannot remember,
50 but I mean it was very current because my statement had
51 gone back. They had read it, considered it, and then it
52 came back to me.
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54 Q. It would not be more than a month?
55 A. I do not know.
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57 Q. It could have been more than a month then?
58 A. I say I cannot remember.
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60 Q. Can you give any explanation as to why both these
