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     1        basically already said their piece when they were preparing
     2        the list.
     3
     4        The same thing is repeated in paragraph 8 of his first
     5        statement, where he says that Mr. Gravett, Mr. Morris and
     6        myself spent some time discussing the design of the leaflet
     7        for the fair; and he then refers to: "The three main
     8        participants Mr. Morris, Ms. Steel and Mr. Gravett
     9        discussed whether 'incorporating the anti-McDonald's fair'
    10        should be within a star or a circle."  Again, this was not
    11        mentioned in his notes at all; and if it was not
    12        significant enough to be noted at the time, why should he
    13        remember it three years later?
    14
    15        So, really, to sum up that part of his evidence or his
    16        statement in relation to that meeting, he makes four
    17        references to me being a lead person, a main participant or
    18        most vociferous in relation to that meeting, and yet the
    19        only mention of my name in the notes that he made at the
    20        time is to say that I was present at the meeting.  There is
    21        no record of me having made any comment at all.  Since
    22        I was one of the people he had been told to look out for,
    23        if I had said anything significant he would have made a
    24        note of it.
    25
    26        Also at that meeting, in paragraph 9.1 of his first
    27        statement he refers to the picket of Seven Sisters
    28        McDonald's being passed on to other members of the group by
    29        'phone.  In his notes on page 163 he recorded that Jane
    30        was organising the picket; but when he was cross-examined
    31        on day 260, page 51, line 55, he agreed that he did not
    32        know who was organising the picket.  Therefore, there is no
    33        evidence that I was involved in organising the picket or
    34        taking any part in the picket.  But, on top of that, even
    35        if there was evidence, there is no mention of the
    36        fact sheet or that the fact sheet was going to be
    37        distributed on that date.  So, that is really another red
    38        herring.  In fact, we heard evidence from Mr. Gravett and
    39        Ms. Laporte that that was a picket organised by Hackney and
    40        Islington Animal Rights, and it was being brought up under
    41        the "coming events" section of the London Greenpeace
    42        meeting, where any coming events could be brought up, not
    43        just ones organised by London Greenpeace.
    44
    45        In paragraph 12 of his first statement, Mr. Bishop said
    46        that "What's wrong with McDonald's?" leaflets were kept in
    47        boxes at the side of the room; and that was in his
    48        statement relating to the same meeting.  However, there is
    49        no mention of this in his notes of 2nd August 1990; and
    50        although the leaflet appended to Mr. Bishop's statement is 
    51        the fact sheet, the statement itself just says "'What's is 
    52        wrong with McDonald's?' leaflet", which is also the title 
    53        of the short leaflet.  In fact, on day 261, page 30,
    54        line 29, Mr. Bishop accepted that it would be the shorter
    55        leaflets in the boxes.
    56
    57        He referred in that paragraph of the statement to the
    58        fact sheet being out of stock sometimes, which, by that
    59        time, from the evidence of Mr. Gravett, it would have
    60        been.  He also referred to the fact sheet being kept in the

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