Day 278 - 11 Jul 96 - Page 35


     
     1        A.  Exactly.  You provided them so that we would not be at
     2        a disadvantage, therefore, when you withdrew them, you knew
     3        that we would be at a disadvantage.
     4
     5   Q.   Would you look now, please, at the last document in this
     6        bundle, the page is 89?  Can you tell me what it is please?
     7        A.  Page 89?
     8
     9   Q.   Yes.  It has got some fuzzy, blurred photographs on it?
    10        A.  I recognise it as something from the Mcspotlight site.
    11
    12   Q.   And it says "the people" and in the left corner we have got
    13        "Mr. Croft", who died some years ago, "Mr. Preston,
    14        Ronald", who does not exist, "Mike Love and me".  On the
    15        right-hand side we have got "Helen Steel, David Morris,
    16        Diane Mills", and then the Greenpeace, "and the Mclibel
    17        support campaign."  Interviews are 'by' or 'with' Dave
    18        Morris, do you know, and Vandana Sheva and you?
    19        A.  We were interviewed.
    20
    21   Q.   Yes.  Your interview went on to the Internet; did it not?
    22        A.  Yes.
    23
    24   Q.   And then it says, there is a picture of Mr. Preston in the
    25        bottom left-hand corner; do you see?
    26        A.  Yes.
    27
    28   Q.   And a flattering picture of Mr. Morris in the bottom
    29        right-hand corner.  Then it gives a list of defendant's
    30        witnesses, or their CVs, and that continues over the page
    31        with a picture of Mr. Mills on the right-hand side, Ronald
    32        McDonald's on the left-hand side.  Then I am afraid I
    33        cannot tell you who that is underneath Ronald?
    34        A.  That is Mike Love.
    35
    36   Q.   You could have fooled me.  I think you may have got the
    37        wrong man actually?
    38        A.  No, it is definitely Mike Love.
    39
    40   Q.   But the person I am interested in at the top of the page,
    41        between the two black lines:  "Plaintiff's witnesses not
    42        included due to court procedures.  Watch this space."  What
    43        does that mean, Miss Steel?
    44        A.  We were asked about whether or not we could give copies
    45        of the plaintiff's witness statements to Mcspotlight, so
    46        that they could put them on there.  As we understood it,
    47        you would have objected if we had done that.  So, we did
    48        not hand anything over that was not something that was our
    49        own document.
    50
    51   Q.   You know, do you not, I mean, you have known for some
    52        considerable time, that once a witness statement, you have
    53        got your own copies, once a witness statement has been made
    54        evidence in court by being averred by the witness, it is
    55        public property.  You know that, do you not?
    56        A.  In terms of ones that have been read, yes, I guess I
    57        do.  But it should be remembered that 95 per cent of your
    58        witness statements were not read, and they only started
    59        getting read after there was the ruling halfway through
    60        employment matters.

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