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     1        agencies.
     2
     3   Q.   But it is clear from this report, is it not, that there
     4        were at least 3 agents at one meeting?
     5        A.  I do not know.  I do not know the names of the people.
     6
     7   MR. JUSTICE BELL: Anyway, I thought you were questioning Mr.
     8        Nicholson about what his state of mind was.  His evidence
     9        yesterday was that he received monthly reports from the
    10        firm.
    11
    12   MS. STEEL:   Weekly.
    13
    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Weekly reports from the firm.  I had not
    15        understood that that was reports from individual
    16        investigators.  Tell me if it was.  I thought it was the
    17        typical kind of letter you get from the firm which gives a
    18        summary of what has been going on.
    19        A.  It was, the reports were prepared.
    20
    Q.   Then, if you want, litigation ensues and you may want to
    22        call witnesses you get witness statements from them?
    23        A.  That is absolutely right.  The report I got was a
    24        report from the directors of the agencies which said agent
    25        'A' saw this, did this, agent 'B' saw this, did this.
    26
    27   MS. STEEL:   Right.  So you would have known that at the meeting
    28        on 24th May, you would have got a report saying agent 'A'
    29        saw this at the meeting of 24th May, agent 'B' saw this and
    30        agent 'C' saw this, and so you would have phone that there
    31        was more than one from each firm?
    32        A.  No.
    33
    34   Q.   Attending the meetings?
    35        A.  No.
    36
    37   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Is that the form?  Did it say what agent 'A'
    38        or 'B' did, or did it say that on such and such a date this
    39        happened at a meeting, or was it a combination of the two?
    40        A.  It was a combination of the two as far as I remember.
    41
    42   MS. STEEL:   Sometimes it said agent 'A' said such and such, and
    43        agent 'B' said that he saw such and such, and other times
    44        it did not say?
    45        A.  I cannot remember an occasion in which any of the
    46        reports indicated there was more than one agent there.
    47        I am not saying that there was not, but I was given no
    48        indication that there was more than one agent of each
    49        agency there.
    50 
    51   MR. MORRIS:  Are you saying you were not kept fully informed of 
    52        what your agents you were paying for were doing? 
    53        A.  Of course I was.
    54
    55   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I find that unrealistic.  Over the years all
    56        the hundreds of inquiry agent reports I have read, because
    57        they are peeping through key holes on spouses or because
    58        they are seeing if the man who says he has a broken back is
    59        humping cement around, or things like this, the best
    60        reports of the lot do not say what agent 'A' or 'B' did;