Day 259 - 10 Jun 96 - Page 28
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2 Q. Right. You also wrote to Karen Christiansen and Arlington
3 Books threatening legal action or requiring them to make a
4 joint statement in open court withdrawing the statement in
5 their book?
6 A. Can you direct me to this? I cannot bring these
7 names -----
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9 Q. It is the Defendants' -- I think it is second supplementary
10 list of documents.
11 A. Sorry, what is it. Counterclaim?
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13 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just wait a moment.
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15 MS. STEEL: Defendants's supplementary list of documents,
16 bundle 2.
17 A. Is this the counterclaim?
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19 Q. No.
20 A. Sorry.
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Bright blue supplementary 2 -- bottom shelf,
23 number 2.
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25 MS. STEEL: In tab 9, there should be a letter from
26 Barlow Lyde & Gilbert to Karen Christiansen, care of
27 Arlington Books Publishers Limited, dated 15th March 1990,
28 about her book Home Ecology?
29 A. I cannot remember this one at all, I am afraid.
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31 Q. You do not remember this one?
32 A. No.
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34 MR. MORRIS: But you would have been responsible for -----
35 A. Not necessarily. As I say, most of them came through
36 me, but not all of them.
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38 Q. Where it threatened legal action, you would be?
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40 MR. RAMPTON: No, my Lord. In fact, if one looks at the letter,
41 the letter is written on the instructions of McDonald's
42 Corporation, which Mr. Nicholson does not control.
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44 THE WITNESS: No. I do not know who instructed them on that
45 one. I do not remember it.
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47 MS. STEEL: Mr. Nicholson, you see the reference number, our
48 reference under "Barlow Lyde & Gilbert"?
49 A. Yes.
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51 Q. The final number is 1342, which is exactly the same number
52 as our case, and all the other threatening letters from
53 McDonald's solicitors -----
54 A. I do not accept that they are threatening.
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56 Q. I mean threatening in terms of threatening legal action,
57 sorry. Then it has the number 477, and our case is 555.
58 Do you happen to know, is that the number of letters ---
59 A. No idea. I have no idea.
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