Day 306 - 26 Nov 96 - Page 28
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2 MS. STEEL: Obviously, we have heard, as I have already
3 mentioned when I gave evidence and also when Mr. Gravett
4 gave evidence, that London Greenpeace did have a long
5 running practice of not taking fact sheets to
6 demonstrations for distribution.
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. Well, I remember all that. I was just
9 checking that I had not forgotten that there was actually
10 evidence from you, or one of your witnesses, that there
11 were a lot of leaflets in or at a holdall by the wall but
12 if they were not the fact sheet they were either Veggies
13 long leaflets or A5 leaflets.
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15 MS. STEEL: Mr. Gravett did say -- I mean, he is shown in the
16 photographs bringing a bag to the picket -- that he brought
17 the leaflets to the picket and obviously they would have
18 been left in the bag that he brought them for people to
19 pick up and when they wanted to hand them out, and so on
20 the basis of that the evidence is that the leaflets in the
21 bags were the A5 version, bearing in mind that it was
22 Mr. Gravett who organised getting the leaflets there, and
23 the street theatre and generally the picket itself.
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25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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27 MS. STEEL: There was the evidence of Jane Laporte. It is
28 pretty brief, so I will say on day 274, page 13, line 50,
29 she said that she attended the picket on 16th October 1989
30 and she did not see me handing out any leaflets.
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32 Moving on then to Mr. Gravett. On day 272, page 3, line
33 49, he said that he attended the picket of the head office
34 on 16th October 1989 and that he did not think that any
35 fact sheets were taken or handed out on that day; he did
36 not recall me handing out any leaflets at all; that he went
37 to the London Greenpeace office and brought the leaflets
38 from there to the picket, plus he organised the street
39 theatre, and that the leaflets that he brought were A5
40 leaflets. He said, "I did not bring any fact sheets with
41 me because it was not the custom of the group at that time
42 to take McDonald's fact sheets on to demonstrations to hand
43 out in bulk."
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45 I have got a reference on day 272, page 4, line 7. I am
46 not sure, I think that is the next bit I am about to read
47 out. That he said that the fact sheets had not been handed
48 out in bulk on demonstrations since 1987, that there were
49 only two occasions when it happened; one was in October
50 1986 and the other was in January 1987, and that it was
51 then decided that since it was costly to reprint it would
52 not be handed out in the street. That Mr. Gravett then
53 wrote a short leaflet for Hackney and Islington Animal
54 Rights, which was then adapted for use by London
55 Greenpeace, and he said that thereafter that was always
56 used on street demonstrations.
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Was that a reference to the A5?
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60 MS. STEEL: Yes, that is the A5 leaflet.
