Day 246 - 09 May 96 - Page 32
1 what you believed.
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3 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: And I will just have to weigh it all up then.
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7 MS. STEEL: I am just checking something which obviously I do
8 know the answer to, but of course you did not send copies
9 of any such apologies to myself, or Mr. Morris, or any of
10 the other 3 Defendants prior to the service of the writs;
11 did you?
12 A. I do not know.
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14 Q. Not that I would have believed it anyway.
15 A. No.
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17 Q. Seeing as there is all the evidence to the contrary. ...
18 You have also used the apology by Channel 4 over the Jungle
19 Burger film as part of your strategy to persuade other
20 people they have got it wrong and they ought to apologise
21 as well; have not you?
22 A. I believe we have used Jungle Burger and that issue on
23 several occasions, yes.
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25 Q. The makers of Jungle Burger in Germany have never been
26 taken to court there; have they?
27 A. I do not know.
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29 Q. You have also used the letter from Prince Philip and you
30 have used the name of Norman Myers in your attempts to,
31 I think, persuade the BBC to apologise, and certainly in
32 your attempts to persuade people like The Vegetarian
33 Society et cetera to apologise over the rainforest issue;
34 have you not?
35 A. We may very well have. I think so, but I cannot recall
36 here and now.
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38 Q. The fact is that Norman Myers has never actually vindicated
39 you, has he?
40 A. I do not know whether he has or not to me personally,
41 but I know that we do not do what he said we did.
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43 Q. But you used his name to persuade other people to apologise
44 when he had not cleared you?
45 A. I do not know that is true.
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47 Q. And you then expect us to believe those other people who
48 have been hoodwinked into apologising?
49 A. No one has been hoodwinked into anything. They had the
50 opportunity to check and verify everything I told them. I
51 would think institutions as reputable as the ones
52 I mentioned did just that and found what I said to be
53 true. I did not expect them to just take my word for it.
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55 Q. The Transnational case, you mentioned The Guardian. That
56 was with the Transnational at the same time; do you
57 remember that?
58 A. Yes, I do.
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60 Q. It was about the pamphlet "Working for Big Mac"?
