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1 is on page 3 and it is about the 1988 anti-McDonald's fair,
2 and whilst Mr. Rampton correctly says that I could not
3 remember if I attended, he then goes on to say but, on
4 balance of probabilities, it is likely that I was there.
5 If you actually read that reference that is quoted there,
6 I did not -- I said that I did not agree that it was likely
7 that I attended. I just said that it was possible that
8 I had attended.
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10 MR. RAMPTON: That is not attributed to Ms. Steel. That is my
11 own submission. Whatever she said, I submit that it is
12 probable she was there.
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14 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Which page are you on now? Are you still in
15 the volume?
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17 MS. STEEL: The Plaintiffs' Closing Submission, Volume 6.
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Which page are you on?
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21 MS. STEEL: Page 3.
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. I have read that as Mr. Rampton's --
24 the conclusion he would ask me to draw.
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26 MS. STEEL: The next thing -- I am not going through -- I
27 mean, obviously, there is a considerable amount in here
28 that I disagree with. I am just trying to go through all
29 the -----
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: My view of this is this: You do not have any
32 right to reply. If there are a few things which are
33 burning a hole in you, what I want you to do is just
34 identify them to me very shortly. But, as you appreciate,
35 I am sure as well as anyone, we cannot swing backwards and
36 forwards from one side to the other on argument.
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38 MS. STEEL: I understand that. That is what I was saying.
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40 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just let me make a note of them so I have
41 them in mind.
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43 MS. STEEL: That is what I was saying, that obviously there are
44 a considerable number of things I disagree with, but I am
45 just pointing out the things where I think that there is --
46 I do not know -- that the Plaintiffs' case is completely --
47 cannot be legally put, whatever.
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49 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. Carry on.
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51 MS. STEEL: I do not know how to express it.
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53 On page 7 Mr. Rampton refers at point 1 to -- he says that
54 London Greenpeace has or had no form of structural
55 constitution and then says: This does not mean, however,
56 that its members cannot act collectively or by consensus in
57 pursuit of common aims and objectives. He gives as a
58 reference to that pink 1A, tab 55, page 160, the last
59 paragraph of the leaflet that appears in that tab, which
60 says at that point: "All our work is done collectively",
