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1 Son Limited v. F.E.R. Dixson & Son Limited [1974] 1 WLR at
2 1125. I have to say I thought there was a more recent
3 authority in the Court of Appeal as well which I think goes
4 by the name of Thorne. If your Lordship would wish it ----
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6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Thorne?
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8 MR. RAMPTON: Thorne. If your Lordship should wish it I will
9 find that authority before tomorrow or else tell your
10 Lordship what my recollection is of Thorne.
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12 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, I think it would be as well.
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14 MR. RAMPTON: Then I will do so.
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16 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What about the point that is suggested that
17 part of McDonald's case is that a large part of London
18 Greenpeace's activities involved McDonald's? Is that so or
19 not so, or is to be refined, that it is a large part of the
20 Defendants' activities and you say all their activities are
21 there in the notes or their contributions?
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23 MR. RAMPTON: Yes. Everything we know everything from these
24 investigators that the Defendants did in or in relation to,
25 by way of direct or indirect participation in the
26 activities of this group, are in these notes.
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: But is it part of your case that it is a
29 large part of London Greenpeace's activities?
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31 MR. RAMPTON: It is our case that it was at one time and that,
32 as the notes themselves show by reference to McDonald's,
33 the group's interests in McDonald's somewhat waned, mostly
34 I think because of the Poll Tax issue but also because they
35 thought they would concentrate on other targets, including
36 the World Bank, waned for a time and then, of course, as we
37 all know now, became acutely excited by the efforts in this
38 case.
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40 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If I remember correctly, if it is accurate,
41 there was some indication of some loss of interest by
42 Mr. Morris in McDonald's.
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44 MR. RAMPTON: That also. Mr. Morris, according to these notes
45 and I do not know what the truth is ----
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: He seems to be somewhat stirred again by the
48 advent of the trial.
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50 MR. RAMPTON: That is right. The notes themselves show that Mr.
51 Morris lost some interest in McDonald's after the 1989
52 McDonald's fair, partly because he became obsessed with the
53 Poll Tax issue and partly because of his own personal
54 domestic difficulties. That is what the notes tell us.
55 Whether that is true or not we will see in due course.
56 What the notes themselves show is somewhat of a decline in
57 McDonald's as the number one or number two focus of the
58 group's activities.
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60 In any event, as Mr. Atkinson rightly points out, on a
