Day 275 - 08 Jul 96 - Page 31
1 A. Okay.
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Two 2 o'clock.
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5 (Luncheon adjournment)
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7 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You have dealt with 8th February 1990, or Mr.
8 Claire's note of it.
9 A. Right. The next one, I think, is page 87.
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11 Q. 1st March 1990.
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13 MR. MORRIS: Which person is this?
14 A. Which is Alan Clare. Going through it in the order it
15 is in. Firstly, about Dave. I have never heard him say
16 that he has helped to organise the 1989 fayre,
17 anti-McDonald's fayre, and I would have been very surprised
18 if he had have done, because, as far as anybody who had any
19 participation in the group at any time, would know that it
20 was Paul that organised it with Charlie helping with the
21 entertainment, and I have never heard Dave -- I have also
22 never heard Dave say that he helped produce the leaflets
23 for the anti-McDonald's campaign or that he had great
24 involvement in it, or that he was organising the 1990
25 London Greenpeace fayre. Well, like I say, I am sure I
26 would remember it if he had said any such thing because as
27 far as I am concerned it would not be true from my
28 knowledge of other things that had been said at the
29 meetings.
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31 In terms of what I am supposed to have said, I would
32 not have said that Paul Alan was preparing a leaflet. If
33 somebody had said, "Oh, what has happened to that leaflet
34 that Paul said he was writing", I might have said "He is
35 still doing it as far as I know", but I would not have used
36 the name Paul Alan and I have not known him as Paul Alan,
37 and anyway, people usually only use their first names at
38 the meetings.
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40 The next bit about Dave is just basically the same as
41 what I said, it seems to be repetitive that. It is
42 certainly not my impression that he was every strongly
43 involved in the anti-McDonald's campaign. In fact, I do
44 not remember him having anything to say about McDonald's
45 generally apart from times when he said that the group
46 should be moving on to other issues.
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48 Just on Anthony Pocklington's notes of 1st March, page
49 90, it is not a particularly important bit, but the last
50 full paragraph on the page, it was actually an antipoll tax
51 demonstration or rally. If it was a rally he may have
52 thought it meant meeting, but the other thing is that I was
53 not the secretary of the antipoll tax group, I was the
54 treasurer. At the beginning of the notes where
55 Mr. Pocklington says about "due to lack of numbers and lack
56 of essential people at meeting at the meeting little was
57 discussed". Just that there weren't any people who were,
58 strictly speaking, essential. However, if there weren't
59 many people there, or weren't many people who were regular
60 attenders, then sometimes, you know, there might be less
