KEY POINTS:
Winston Peters' lawyer Brian Henry will be under pressure today to explain glaring inconsistencies between the story he previously gave to Parliament's privileges committee and evidence tabled last week by businessman Owen Glenn.
For both versions to be correct, Mr Glenn had to have been talking to someone
else on December 14, 2005, at exactly the same time as he was talking to Mr Peters.
The privileges committee has also received two more affidavits - from Peter and Philip Vela, disputing reports of a lunch at the Karaka yearling sales in 2006, when Mr Peters is claimed to have thanked Mr Glenn for the donation.
Mr Henry will be linked to the committee via a link from Sydney.
If he can back up his claim that he telephoned Mr Glenn at some time after the 2005 election to seek a $100,000 donation for Mr Peters' legal fees, he would go a long way to clearing Mr Peters from Mr Glenn's assertion that Mr Peters solicited the donation.
Mr Glenn says he has no recollection of ever having spoken to Mr Henry and believes Mr Peters initially approached him on December 5, 2005.
Mr Henry has been recalled because his earlier evidence seems incompatible with Mr Glenn's records. Mr Henry has previously told the committee it was he who telephoned Mr Glenn to seek funding on the advice of a client of his.
He said the client was not Mr Peters but he had not been granted any waiver of client confidentiality. Mr Glenn shocked the committee last week when he tabled telephone records of a six-minute phone call he made to Mr Peters on December 14 agreeing to an earlier request by Mr Peters for assistance.
Mr Glenn also tabled an email from Mr Henry which points to Mr Peters being "the client" because the email has a time reference to a phone call that can only be Mr Peters' conversation with Mr Glenn.
Mr Peters at the privileges committee last Wednesday recalled many of things that were discussed in the call. But he did not remember Mr Glenn having asked him for his lawyer's contact details and bank account number - though he did not deny it had happened.
Mr Peters told the committee he did not remember contacting Mr Henry immediately after the call but, contradicting himself, also talked about the call. Mr Peters claims he found out about the donation only on July 18 this year when Mr Henry told him.
Meanwhile, reports of the lunch at which Mr Peters is said to have thanked Mr Glenn have been disputed in affidavits by the brothers whose company, New Zealand Bloodstock, runs the Karaka sales. They dispute they were at the same table.
INCONSISTENCY
Last week's documented evidence from Owen Glenn:
* Glenn telephones Winston Peters at 1.26pm (NZ time) December 14, 2005, Glenn says to discuss donation.
* Phone call ends at 1.32pm.
* Eight minutes later Glenn receives email from Brian Henry: "Further to your discussion with my client at 1.30 NZ time I provide my banks details as ASB acct...'
Brian Henry's verbal evidence on August 18:
* Gerry Brownlee: "Who suggested to you that you approach Owen Glenn?"
* Brian Henry: "I am unable to divulge that because it's privileged and it's not Winston Peters' privilege to waive. I can tell you it was not the president of the Labour Party or Winston Peters.
