APPENDIX 1: LIST OF CHARACTERS
Readers may find the following list helpful:
LM: Lord Moonie, as referred to in the Sunday
Times and Hansard transcripts of the secretly recorded conversations
PS: Lord Snape, as referred to in the Sunday
Times and Hansard transcripts
PT: Lord Truscott, as referred to in the Sunday
Times and Hansard transcripts
LT: Lord Taylor of Blackburn, as referred to
in the Sunday Times and Hansard transcripts
CN: Claire Newell, a Sunday Times undercover
reporter posing as a lobbyist
Claire Taylor: cover name used by Claire Newell
posing as a lobbyist in the secretly recorded meetings with the
four Lords; the "woman" referred to in the transcripts
JC: Jonathan Calvert, Sunday Times
Insight editor
David
Thompson: cover name used by Jonathan Calvert posing as a
lobbyist in the secretly recorded meetings with the four
Lords; the "man" referred to in the transcripts
MG: Michael Gillard, a Sunday Times reporter;
he revealed the "sting"
MJA: Michael Johnson Associates; the bogus lobbying
firm
Emerald: the bogus Hong Kong client of MJA; said
to be a clothes retailer proposing to set up in the UK and seeking
to have the Business Rate Supplements Bill amended in its interests
Lou Ji Jiang: said to be a Hong Kong based Chinese
billionaire financier behind Emerald; MJA's client
Wong Hing: said to be a Taiwanese conglomerate
with 2000 retail outlets in the Far East; partner of Lou Ji Jiang
Janet: Janet M Robinson, Lord Taylor's personal
secretary
We wish to record our thanks to Brendan Keith, Head
of the Judicial Office and Registrar of Lords' Interests, and
to Susannah Street, Clerk in the Journal Office, for their great
assistance beyond the call of normal duty in producing this report.
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