Louis had invited Jeremy to meet with him on 23 June. We were anxious to appoint a solicitor to start the litigation and to give Bob Crabtree their name so that we could see the two emails he had from Gerard. At the meeting, Louis had asked for a lot more background information, especially in relation to the criminal case. He confirmed that the conversation recorded of Julie Cullivan and Gerard was slander. Jeremy told him about the contents of the emails, which would be evidence of libel. Despite this strong evidence we would have to pay our own legal fees as neither he nor Counsel would consider acting on a CFA agreement due to the fact that there could be a viable defence to the slander allegation. Then there was the uncertainty about the recovery of our costs against Gerard. That afternoon Jeremy spoke to Bob Crabtree and gave him the solicitor’s email address to forward the Gerard emails. Bob was kind enough to copy Jeremy in at the same time and we sat down to read the attachment together.
