Day 277 - 10 Jul 96 - Page 37


     
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     2   Q.   You must have remembered that when you answered that
     3        interrogatory in 1993.  One does not forget three years of
     4        one's life as easily as that, Miss Steel, does one?
     5        A.  You know, I have been to probably hundreds of meetings
     6        in my life, Mr. Rampton, and, no, I can't specifically
     7        remember how many I attended at London Greenpeace in 1989,
     8        1990.
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    10   Q.   Well, can I go back to the photographs, please?  I think I
    11        had got as far as 7?
    12        A.  To be honest I do not even remember that I had not
    13        attended the meeting on 14th June and it was only because
    14        when I read Mr. Bishop's notes and I was not mentioned I
    15        thought, well, that's strange, he has not got me down for
    16        that meeting, Mr. Clare has, and then thinking about it I
    17        thought, wait, that was when I was in the Outer Hebrides
    18        because I remembered being there on the longest day of the
    19        year.
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    21   Q.   Exactly, Miss Steel, exactly.  Nobody who has a regular
    22        occurrence in their life could possibly expect to remember
    23        particular dates unless something peculiarly dramatic
    24        happened on a particular date.  They blur into each other.
    25        I go there once a week, yes, I do regularly, but I can't
    26        say what happened on 14th June.  That is absolutely right
    27        if I may say so?
    28        A.  No, you remember events, you don't remember the date
    29        that they happened on unless the date has some
    30        significance.
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    32   Q.   That's right.  Now, can we turn, please, to photograph 9.
    33        This is perhaps a matter for argument, but I think it is
    34        only right that you should comment on it from the witness
    35        box if you wish to do so.  Do you or do you not agree that
    36        that leaflet, which is sticking up from the box marked "McD
    37        fact sheets", is one of the leaflets complained of this in
    38        this libel action?
    39        A.  I couldn't say.  It could be a Veggies one.  I don't
    40        know, it could be anything.
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    42   Q.   No, it couldn't be anything, but we will argue about that
    43        later on in the case, Miss Steel.
    44        A.  Well, obviously it couldn't be an orange leaflet.
    45
    46   Q.   And then I want to know if I have understood correctly,
    47        please, what you say that box was used for?
    48        A.  There was a stall box which had in it various leaflets
    49        which were taken by people who were doing stalls.  Just the
    50        box would be taken to the stall.  It would often have the
    51        banner in it, sometimes scissors, string, cellotape, a
    52        stapler, you know, pen and paper.  Just the sort of thing
    53        that you would want if you were doing a store.
    54
    55   Q.   And that box is this one, is that what you are telling us;
    56        I haven't understood it you see?
    57        A.  That is what Miss Laporte and Mr. Gravett said, and
    58        they were the ones that did stalls generally.  And I do
    59        remember that there was a stall box in the office and it
    60        was kept on the shelves.  I do not know that I personally

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