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     1        Whatever meeting it was at, he did not record anything
     2        about the leaflets complained of being stocked in boxes and
     3        being available to take away.  He did, in the notes about
     4        that meeting, make a reference to a filing cabinet, but
     5        when we cross-examined him about this on day 261, page 75,
     6        he said that he could not say which leaflets were available
     7        and, also, that he had never examined the contents of the
     8        filing cabinet.
     9
    10        I think Mr. Morris made this point, anyway, but I am not
    11        sure, so I will just say it.  If there were copies of the
    12        fact sheet in a filing cabinet or in a box on the shelf,
    13        that in itself would not be distribution, because there was
    14        not a sign up directing the public to come inside and get
    15        copies of the fact sheet.  The only people who would be in
    16        the office of London Greenpeace were people who were
    17        attending meetings or involved in the group in some way.
    18
    19        In his third statement, Mr. Pocklington mentioned in
    20        paragraph 23 that anti-McDonald's leaflets were always
    21        available at Endsleigh Street meetings.  I think it should
    22        be noted that this was the first time he ever mentioned
    23        this.  It was not in his first statement and it was not in
    24        his notes.  This third statement was made six years after
    25        the event.
    26
    27        Also, he does not specify which anti-McDonald's leaflets he
    28        is referring to; he just said the anti-McDonald's leaflets
    29        were always displayed and available at the monthly open
    30        meetings.  I mean, obviously there are two points, really:
    31        that he does not say which ones, and how could he possibly
    32        remember that they were at each and every meeting six years
    33        later?
    34
    35        Another general point about leaflets is that there was
    36        reference to 10,000 anti-McDonald's leaflets being printed
    37        wrongly.  They were supposed to have been printed for
    38        Hackney and Islington Animal Rights, and they were printed
    39        with London Greenpeace's name on them, and so they were
    40        given to London Greenpeace.  Just to point out that all the
    41        evidence that there has been about which leaflets these
    42        were was that they were fact sheets, not the fact sheets,
    43        that they were the A5 leaflets.  Mr. Gravett gave evidence
    44        about that, and there is no evidence to the contrary.
    45
    46        Going back to the evidence of Mr. Pocklington, relating to
    47        the meeting of 16th November 1989, what I have tried to do
    48        is go through the statements to identify where they
    49        actually alleged any specific comments or behaviour on my
    50        part, be it in relation to McDonald's or the group in 
    51        general, because it is not exactly clear what the 
    52        Plaintiffs are going to say is an important bit of evidence 
    53        or not.  I just thought that might be a way of dealing with
    54        it.  In paragraph 10 of the first statement,
    55        Mr. Pocklington says that during the course of the meeting
    56        of 16th November 1989 it became clear to him that myself
    57        and Mr. Morris were core members of the group and major
    58        participants in its activities.
    59
    60        I think it should be noted that there is no mention of that

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