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     1        name associated with the campaign, rather than his own
     2        name.  But it was not something that he was not speaking on
     3        behalf of everybody that was involved with the group.
     4
     5             The final thing I wanted to say about the notes is on
     6        page 208, the notes of Brian Bishop.  It is my recollection
     7        that Mr. Bishop was asking quite a few questions about the
     8        writs and what was our reaction to it?
     9
    10   MR. MORRIS:  This is?
    11
    12   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  27th September.
    13
    14   MR. MORRIS:  27th September?
    15        A.  Yes.  It is also my recollection that Michelle Hooker,
    16        Shelley, asked a lot of questions about the writs.  I can
    17        quite clearly remember her on a number of occasions asking
    18        questions about what were we going to do?  How were we
    19        going to fight the case?  What we think about having got
    20        the writs?  That sort of thing.  Generally trying to find
    21        out, you know, how we were going to fight the case.
    22
    23             I should say I do remember her asking questions,
    24        partly because I remember that when she first started
    25        attending I was actually suspicious about her because she
    26        just seemed to, I don't know, she just seemed to ask a lot
    27        of questions and pretend to be a bit stupid in order to get
    28         -- not stupid, but like pretend she was not really getting
    29        what you were talking about or something like that, in
    30        order for it to be explained more.  And yet she had, you
    31        know, she said she was working for a company called
    32        Research Surveys of Great Britain that did market
    33        research.  She drove a BMW and appeared to be in quite a
    34        good job.
    35
    36             The two things did not really gel together.  Her being
    37        so kind of like she did not really understand what was
    38        going on, but at the same time being quite sort of high
    39        powered in terms of, you know, being able to have a company
    40        car that was a BMW, which is what she said it was, a
    41        company car.  So I was actually suspicious of her at the
    42        time she was attending meetings.  But it was the fact that
    43        she was attending with Frances Tiller, Jan, who seemed like
    44        who seemed like quite a nice person, that actually made me
    45        think well maybe Shelley is all right.  It is just, you
    46        know, I don't know.
    47
    48             But it should be borne in mind that this was all after
    49        the times when Mr. Pocklington had been chatting to the
    50        person who had followed us home.  So, you know, we were a
    51        bit suspicious of people.
    52
    53             Just about Shelley generally; she was very
    54        enthusiastic about just about everything that was going on
    55        in London Greenpeace.  She took a very active part
    56        organising meetings or the posters for meetings, reporting
    57        back on pickets including, I remember, her reporting back
    58        on pickets of McDonald's in Hackney and the Hackney and
    59        Islington pickets in Dawston and Seven Sisters.  I remember
    60        her reporting on some of those and other people obviously

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