Day 140 - 22 Jun 95 - Page 31
1 meeting with her and the other sisters; and she felt
2 satisfied with what she had and did not request an
3 additional meeting.
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5 MS. STEEL: So she did not see the report in the end?
6 A. No, she did not; and nor did she want to see the whole
7 report after.
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9 Q. Nobody wanted to see the whole report?
10 A. I cannot say nobody did, but we were going to limit it
11 to the community leaders and people such as that.
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13 Q. What was so secret about this report?
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15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can we pause again? So you did not actually
16 offer her the full report; you had a telephone conversation
17 with her where you answered questions that she raised, and
18 you offered to hold another meeting?
19 A. My Lord, I offered to give her the full report.
20 I offered to have another meeting. She suggested that she
21 had a series of questions, and a couple of different
22 conversations. At the conclusion of that, she said there
23 was no need for an additional meeting.
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25 MS. STEEL: Did you give the copy of the full report to anybody
26 at all outside of the Corporation?
27 A. Not that I recall.
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29 Q. What happened to this report?
30 A. After we used it and the matter was finished, it was
31 disposed of. There was no reason to keep it.
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33 Q. I see. So you kept all the correspondence between you and
34 these various community groups, you kept the PUP report,
35 but you did not keep your own report?
36 A. Can I stop you there? This is not all the
37 correspondence that we had. Apparently, this is all of it
38 that was left, but, trust me, there was lots more
39 correspondence.
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41 Q. Well, you kept the PUP report, but you did not keep your
42 own report?
43 A. That is correct. We kept the summary which had the
44 essence of the full report and we kept the PUP report,
45 apparently, and we kept some letters, but there is no full
46 keeping of these things. In fact, I did not keep,
47 personally, any of these. These were within my office and
48 what we were able to dig out.
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50 Q. The case is, is it not, Mr. Stein, that it was your report
51 that was flawed, and you did not want anybody to see the
52 full report because you realised that they would be able to
53 criticise your methodology and pull your report to pieces?
54 A. Not at all. The methodology is specifically set out in
55 the summary report. The rest of it was a lot of detail and
56 a lot of stuff that was not really essential, and there was
57 no reason to keep the extended report when the summary had
58 all of the salient information on the methodology.
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60 Q. But it was essential to keep the PUP report?
