Day 248 - 13 May 96 - Page 26


     
     1        or somebody else, if it be so, that decided that you wanted
     2        to take some kind of action against the London Greenpeace?
     3        I am not talking about actually, physically serving the
     4        writs, but before private investigators were hired?
     5        A.  It was me.
     6
     7   Q.   It was you?
     8        A.  Yes.
     9
    10   Q.   When you were handed a leaflet, I think you said you got it
    11        from someone from America, or somewhere?
    12        A.  I had been given a leaflet by, I think it was, a
    13        licensee in the States.  I had been communicated with.
    14
    15   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I am afraid we have heard this on a number
    16        occasions.
    17
    18   MS. STEEL:   I am trying to ----
    19
    20   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  You need not tell us again.
    21
    22   THE WITNESS:  Fair enough.
    23
    24   MS. STEEL:   OK.  Then what?  You went to Mr. Nicholson, and
    25        what happened?
    26        A.  Well...
    27
    28   Q.   What did you say to him about the leaflet?
    29        A.  I had talked to him over the period on numerous
    30        occasions about the issue.
    31
    32   Q.   Over which period, sorry?
    33        A.  Over the 1987, a period over this issue.
    34
    35   Q.   After you had got a copy of the leaflet?
    36        A.  Yes.  I had then experienced the fire bombing things we
    37        talked about, in 1989, and my Milton Keynes restaurant, and
    38        that for me was that I have to find out who is at the
    39        bottom of this issue.  I said to Sid, "Find out who is
    40        involved so that if we so chose to take legal action we
    41        have a case which is sound and solid and can be brought to
    42        the courts", and I left him to it.  I gave him one
    43        proviso.  I said it the other day:  "Make sure anything and
    44        everything you do is legal".  That was the nuts and bolts
    45        of the story.
    46
    47   Q.   You had nothing to connect London Greenpeace to the Milton
    48        Keynes incident did you?
    49        A.  I have your aims and ideals.
    50 
    51   Q.   I am talking about at the time; you had nothing? 
    52        A.  I had seen the aims an ideals document. 
    53
    54   Q.   You had?
    55        A.  Yes.
    56
    57   Q.   In 1989?
    58        A.  About that time, yes.
    59
    60   Q.   Do you remember when it was that you first saw it?

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