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1 Line 13, "well, who wrote the statement, was it you or the
2 solicitors?" Answer, "I and the solicitors, I believe."
3 Anyway, that is all with Mr. Clare.
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Right.
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7 MS. STEEL: Going on to the picket of 16th October 1989 outside
8 McDonald's head office, I gave evidence on day 275,
9 page 11, about having attended the picket and that it was
10 my recollection that I had been holding a banner and taking
11 some photographs and that I did not recall handing out any
12 leaflets on that demonstration, and also that I do not
13 recall ever having handed out the fact sheet which we are
14 being sued over. I should say that if I believed that I
15 had handed out the fact sheet I would not be ashamed of
16 admitting it. I am not ashamed of the fact sheet. I do
17 believe that it is true.
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19 However, the reality is that the fact sheet, as I gave
20 evidence and as Mr. Gravett and Miss Laporte gave evidence,
21 was not intended for general distribution to the public,
22 and I did refer in my evidence to the fact that whilst this
23 decision had been made prior to my becoming involved with
24 London Greenpeace, I did recall it being referred to on a
25 number of occasions at meetings of London Greenpeace when
26 people were talking about the history of the campaign or
27 referring to the fact sheet, that it was not that the fact
28 sheet was not for mass distribution, that it was for
29 specific inquiries, because it cost so much to print and
30 because it was considered to be too long for people, sort
31 of, to take in if they were handed it on the street.
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33 Now, obviously, we were asked interrogatories and, as far
34 as I know, they are not evidence, are they, anyway, unless
35 they are put in as evidence?
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No. But like anything else which is
38 apparently a statement made by a witness it can be put to
39 them for the purposes of cross-examination.
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41 MS. STEEL: Right. Well, I don't actually think Mr. Rampton
42 asked me about that interrogatory, but in any event the
43 reason why I did not give a categoric "no" to the
44 interrogatory was that they were asked three years after
45 the event and at that stage -- I am just trying to find
46 something, sorry.
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48 Yes, I said this in evidence on day 275, page 12, "The only
49 possibility is that at some stage on the demonstration
50 somebody said to me something like, 'Oh, that person over
51 there is interested, do you mind just going and giving him
52 a copy of this'. And that could be either the London
53 Greenpeace fact sheet or the Veggies fact sheet." As far
54 as I am concerned that is the only possibility that was
55 countenanced by the answer given in the interrogatory, and
56 my evidence on the day is that it is my firm belief that I
57 did not hand out even one copy of the fact sheet, of the
58 London Greenpeace fact sheet, on that day and that
59 certainly I was not distributing it en masse as described
60 by Mr. Nicholson and Mr. Carroll, and that is basically a
