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1 sincerely Professor Vogel's signature and he has enclosed
2 an abstract of his research. There are two other ones that
3 I could read. There is the statement of Ross Gardner, who
4 is in ----
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6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Say who they are first, because they are not
7 on my list. Then I will ask Mr. Atkinson whether he is
8 content that they be read or not. Let us see what they
9 are.
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11 MR. MORRIS: Ross Gardner is -- he should be publication.
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13 MS. STEEL: It should be in the CEA section.
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15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What area?
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17 MR. MORRIS: Civil Evidence Act Notice, publication witness, and
18 he is from New Zealand and this was dated 16th November,
19 1993. Originally, it was in section K under the Civil
20 Evidence Act statements. In fact, he has got a section all
21 to himself, section K. He may have been reorganised. I do
22 not know if Mrs. Brinley-Codd knows. (Pause).
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24 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you have anything to say about that?
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26 MR. ATKINSON: I did not realise it was coming up but, looking
27 at it, I do not think it amounts to very much. The only
28 thing I would say is that, insofar as it is being adduced
29 on behalf of the Defendants, I suppose it is being adduced
30 for the purpose of saying that this particular
31 environmental affairs officer -----
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just let me read it first.
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35 MR. ATKINSON: My immediate problem, my Lord, is just seeing the
36 relevance of it, quite apart from the question of
37 admissibility.
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I suggest is, let it be read and we will
40 see what part it plays in the enormous jigsaw in due
41 course. Let me just make a note. Are you going to read
42 it?
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44 MS. STEEL: Yes, I will read it:
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46 "Ross Gardner. New Zealand, 16th November, 1993.
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48 In 1990 McDonald's Systems of New Zealand Limited began to
49 employ 'Environmental Affairs Officers'. The Managing
50 Director of McDonald's at that stage was Gary Lloyd. The
51 job of the 'Environmental Affairs officer' was to talk
52 about McDonald's environmental policies to various
53 audiences, usually school children. One such occasion was
54 at Selwyn College in Auckland. The Environmental Affairs
55 Officer based most of her talk on the advertisements placed
56 by McDonald's in all the University newspapers in New
57 Zealand. However, she took things one step further by
58 claiming her knowledge of Greenpeace London came not from
59 reading these adverts but from once being a 'member of
60 Greenpeace London'. She became uncomfortable once
