Day 245 - 07 May 96 - Page 27
1 solicitors office?
2 A. I do not know.
3
4 Q. On the one that I read out. Do you know why press releases
5 were being sent out from your solicitors office on behalf
6 of the company?
7 A. I do not know that that is. I do not know the number.
8
9 Q. The number at the bottom?
10 A. 017?
11
12 Q. 017 782 ----
13 A. I do not know whose 'phone number it is.
14
15 Q. It is the fax number for Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, I am sure
16 they will not deny it, but you do not happen to know why
17 the press releases were being faxed out from the solicitors
18 offices?
19 A. No, I do not.
20
21 Q. I wanted to ask a couple of questions about the press
22 release at number 3, the libel action background briefing.
23
24 Paragraph 4 has the same untrue statements about how
25 McDonald's supposedly wrote to London Greenpeace about the
26 leaflet several times. Incidentally, do you know whether
27 or not a reply was received?
28 A. No, I do not think it was but I really do not know.
29
30 Q. You do not know. Is there anybody in the Company who knows
31 whether or not a reply was received?
32 A. I do not know.
33
34 Q. So nobody in the Company knew whether or not it was true
35 that no reply was ever received?
36
37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: He said he does not know, he did not know.
38
39 MS. STEEL: But you authorised this. Did you not ask whoever
40 brought it to you whether or not that was true, whether or
41 not a reply had been received?
42 A. No-one told me they received one. Did I ask every
43 single employee in the office? No, I did not. I do not
44 know.
45
46 Q. Did Mike Love bring this to you?
47 A. Did?
48
49 Q. Mike Love bring this to you, your Head of Communications?
50 A. I do not remember whether he or Edwina or some
51 combination there did. I do not recall.
52
53 Q. Were there meetings about putting out press releases and
54 the leaflet to stores?
55 A. Were there meetings? I am sure there were.
56
57 Q. But you did not attend them?
58 A. No.
59
60 Q. You did not attend any meetings about ----
