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1 Q. But it was the aims and principles leaflet you say that
2 caused you to decide to take action against
3 London Greenpeace?
4 A. No.
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6 Q. Is that right?
7 A. No.
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9 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That was Mr. Preston, said it was the
10 clincher. It was not disclosed, but something to that
11 effect. I have left my notes upstairs.
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13 MS. STEEL: I thought Mr. Nicholson said it as well.
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15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It was when he got the aims and objectives
16 leaflet that he finally decided he must either take action
17 or that he must stop the publication, further publication,
18 of the leaflet.
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20 MS. STEEL: Right.
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Certainly, Mr. Preston said that, because
23 I was reading the relevant piece of transcript only this
24 morning. Do you remember?
25 A. No. What prompted me to take action against
26 London Greenpeace was that Paul Preston told me.
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28 MS. STEEL: I am sure the witness said something about it.
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30 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, he did. He said he was interested in the
31 animal liberation activities of the group, and because of
32 what he read in the aims and objectives leaflet. This is
33 on 14th May, on page 10. It was the same document he
34 thought that Mr. Preston had referred to?
35 A. Yes.
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37 MS. STEEL: If I put it to you that both you and Mr. Preston
38 are mistaken about this and that this leaflet did not come
39 into your possession until the date which is on the one
40 attached to Mr. Preston's statement, which is April 1990,
41 it refers to the poll tax on the leaflet, which obviously
42 came in in England in 1990. Obviously, there was some
43 amount of campaigning about it for a little while before it
44 came in, but would you accept that you are mistaken and
45 that this leaflet, you never saw a copy of this leaflet,
46 until after the inquiry agents had already been attending
47 the meetings?
48 A. No, I had seen a copy of a leaflet which referred to
49 your Aims and Objectives long before then. That may be a
50 reprint of it.
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Long before when?
53 A. Long before I started the inquiry; long before '89.
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55 Q. You had seen the Aims and Objectives leaflet?
56 A. Yes, an Aims and Objectives leaflet, in which you spell
57 out who you are and what you are and the fact that you were
58 there before Greenpeace International. I had seen that
59 long before 1989. You may very well -- sorry,
60 London Greenpeace may very well have rehashed it when they
