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     2   Q.   Is the Company still using inquiry agents to investigate
     3        London Greenpeace?
     4        A.  Not to my knowledge.
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     6   Q.   Do you know when it stopped?
     7        A.  I assume it was about 1992, but I am not certain.
     8        Again, I was not actually that privy to it.  I had --
     9        I used to attend meetings at Barlows but, normally
    10        speaking, I was there dealing with other matters involving
    11        company business, and I was not that involved in the
    12        dealings with the private investigators.
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    14   Q.   So the private investigators continued coming to meetings
    15        for a couple of years after the writs had been served?
    16        A.  I would not like to say that; I honestly do not
    17        remember how long.
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    19   Q.   You said 1992 so .....
    20        A.  I say that, it is a vague 92, it could have been 91.
    21        I did not pay that much attention to the dates, to be
    22        perfectly honest with you, and I was backwards and forwards
    23        to Barlow Lyde & Gilbert on other matters quite unconnected
    24        with this case.
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    26   Q.   You were aware they carried on attending meetings quite a
    27        while after the writs had been served in September 1990?
    28        A.  I was not, but I will take your word for it.
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    30   Q.   You said that you assumed it was about 1992 that they
    31        stopped.
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    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  He said:  "I think the last one was in 1992",
    34        something to that effect.
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    36   MS. STEEL:  You must be aware that was quite a while after the
    37        writs had been served?
    38        A.  I am aware it is some time after the writs had been
    39        served, but I was not that interested, or my job did not
    40        entail to that extent dealing with the private
    41        investigators.  I am not sure whether it was 91 or 92 when
    42        the operation ceased, or whether it was before then.
    43        I just cannot give you a date.
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    45   Q.   So did Mr. Nicholson speak to you about this?
    46        A.  When?  Sorry, I spoke to Mr. Nicholson on many
    47        occasions.
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    49   Q.   Did he tell you what was going on with what the inquiry
    50        agents were finding out?  What the Company's plans were, 
    51        things like that? 
    52        A.  We did have some discussions but they were fairly 
    53        superficial ones.
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    55   Q.   Did he tell you what the purpose was for continuing to send
    56        inquiry agents after the writs had been served?
    57        A.  No.
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    59   Q.   Did you ever ask him about it?
    60        A.  Not to my knowledge.
 
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