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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.
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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?
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10 MR. MORRIS: This is?
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12 MR. JUSTICE BELL: 27th September.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
