Day 258 - 07 Jun 96 - Page 48


     
     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.
     5
     6   Q.   Is that right?
     7        A.  No.
     8
     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.
    12
    13   MS. STEEL:  I thought Mr. Nicholson said it as well.
    14
    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.
    19
    20   MS. STEEL:   Right.
    21
    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.
    27
    28   MS. STEEL:   I am sure the witness said something about it.
    29
    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.
    36
    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. 
    51 
    52   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Long before when? 
    53        A.  Long before I started the inquiry; long before '89.
    54
    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

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