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Notices of Motions: 19th November 1992
No. 72
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NEOPOST FRANKING MACHINES
Sir Michael Neubert
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That this House notes that Neopost have taken and continue to take all possible steps to eradicate any misrepresentation by staff, including dismissals and cancellation of contracts where misrepresentation has been substantiated; notes that the managers and directors of Neopost deny absolutely instructing sales staff to mislead customers; is concerned that a number of dismissed former employees of Neopost have joined a competitor of Neopost, Westmore Business Systems, who have been approaching Neopost customers and whose solicitors claim to represent all the Neopost customers detailed in EDM 791; notes that some of these customers deny that the solicitors have any authority to act for them; notes that despite requests from Neopost to provide the relevant information to enable a proper inquiry to take place, the solicitors have repeatedly refused; further notes that the general accuracy of EDM 791 can be gauged by the fact that Neopost does not and never has offered two year leases; is unsurprised in all the circumstances to discover that Neopost has issued legal actions against Westmore Business Systems and against its Director, David Weston, who was dismissed in March 1991 for gross misconduct and misrepresentation by Alcatel, from whom Neopost purchased the company in January 1992; and urges honourable Members, in particular Opposition Front Bench spokesmen, to establish the facts in cases involving commercial companies before signing grossly misleading Early Day Motions and serving as unpaid salesmen to unnamed competitors.
LORRAIN OSMAN (No. 2)
RAIN
Mr Robert Parry
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That this House notes with absolute consternation the publication of a new schedule of evidence taking in the tragic case of Lorrain Osman, which the Hong Kong authorities admit under pressure will mean that there will be no trial for Mr Osman before late 1994 or early 1995 and possibly much later; notes with outrage that the Hong Kong authorities propose to continue to hold Mr Osman on remand, in gaol, either here or in Hong Kong, having already held him on remand for seven years in Pentonville and Brixton prisons; further notes with alarm that Mr Osman is held on the basis of a case made by the Hong Kong Acting Director of Public Prosecutions, Warwick Reid, who is now serving eight years in gaol for corruption; further notes that Mr Osman's long search for justice through the medium of habeas corpus has been deliberately frustrated by the Hong Kong prosecutors having withheld crucial evidence that wholly contradicts the evidence on which Mr Osman was committed to prison in the United Kingdom in the first place; and demands the immediate release of Mr Osman, now 61 years old and in deteriorating health, as well as a judicial inquiry into the whole affair.
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NAME WITHDRAWN (TO PERMIT ADDITION TO AN AMENDMENT) SAVING OF A PRIME MINISTER: Mr Elfyn Llwyd has withdrawn his name.
NAMES WITHDRAWN
NEOPOST FRANKING MACHINES MALPRACTICES: Mr John Evans has withdrawn
his name.
PHASING OUT OF METHYL BROMIDE BY THE YEAR 2000: Mr Derek Enright has
withdrawn his name.
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