Day 248 - 13 May 96 - Page 26
1 or somebody else, if it be so, that decided that you wanted
2 to take some kind of action against the London Greenpeace?
3 I am not talking about actually, physically serving the
4 writs, but before private investigators were hired?
5 A. It was me.
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7 Q. It was you?
8 A. Yes.
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10 Q. When you were handed a leaflet, I think you said you got it
11 from someone from America, or somewhere?
12 A. I had been given a leaflet by, I think it was, a
13 licensee in the States. I had been communicated with.
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15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am afraid we have heard this on a number
16 occasions.
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18 MS. STEEL: I am trying to ----
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20 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. You need not tell us again.
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22 THE WITNESS: Fair enough.
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24 MS. STEEL: OK. Then what? You went to Mr. Nicholson, and
25 what happened?
26 A. Well...
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28 Q. What did you say to him about the leaflet?
29 A. I had talked to him over the period on numerous
30 occasions about the issue.
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32 Q. Over which period, sorry?
33 A. Over the 1987, a period over this issue.
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35 Q. After you had got a copy of the leaflet?
36 A. Yes. I had then experienced the fire bombing things we
37 talked about, in 1989, and my Milton Keynes restaurant, and
38 that for me was that I have to find out who is at the
39 bottom of this issue. I said to Sid, "Find out who is
40 involved so that if we so chose to take legal action we
41 have a case which is sound and solid and can be brought to
42 the courts", and I left him to it. I gave him one
43 proviso. I said it the other day: "Make sure anything and
44 everything you do is legal". That was the nuts and bolts
45 of the story.
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47 Q. You had nothing to connect London Greenpeace to the Milton
48 Keynes incident did you?
49 A. I have your aims and ideals.
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51 Q. I am talking about at the time; you had nothing?
52 A. I had seen the aims an ideals document.
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54 Q. You had?
55 A. Yes.
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57 Q. In 1989?
58 A. About that time, yes.
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60 Q. Do you remember when it was that you first saw it?
