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1 on myself and Mr. Morris; they are alleging that we are the
2 organisers of the London Greenpeace fair, as an
3 anti-McDonald's event; and, therefore, that would have been
4 relevant evidence to show that Mr. Gravett was, in the
5 main, doing the organising, and not us at all.
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7 There are, of course, the blanked out parts of the notes of
8 16th June 1990, where Mr. Bishop ran the stall at the
9 George Roby which refers to leaflets on tables. It does
10 not specify McDonald's ones, but it refers to the group's
11 leaflets being available on the tables.
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13 There were the references that I referred to the other day,
14 on 13th September 1990, which had been blanked out, with my
15 details being given for organising the IMF fund. So,
16 clearly, that was a reference to me which had been blanked
17 out.
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: But are these ones you are saying which were
20 only blanked out and then have come in when more -----
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22 MS. STEEL: Yes. They came in with the last set of documents.
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24 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. By the time I have given my ruling on
25 this matter, it should be clear what should be disclosed,
26 if it is there.
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28 MS. STEEL: Right. I just have this concern, that Mr. Rampton
29 is saying again that everything has been disclosed relevant
30 to McDonald's or to us. But that was what he said on a
31 previous occasion, and that was not the case.
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I know. I do not think I can say that the
34 fact that it has taken two bites, as it were, to get it
35 right, if that were so, necessarily means that I have good
36 reason to suppose that there are still things there in the
37 blanked out bits. That is my reaction at the moment.
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39 MS. STEEL: Right. Well, it might be relevant to a
40 consideration about whether or not Mr. Rampton's decision
41 on the test of relevance is the right decision -- which,
42 obviously, you know, we disagree over what is relevant.
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44 With reference to what was said yesterday by Mr. Rampton
45 about events stopping after 1990, the service of the writs,
46 Mr. Morris has touched on this, but I would like to refer
47 you to actual -- I will read out parts of the pleadings,
48 because Mr. Rampton did say yesterday that there were only
49 two events after 1990 which were related to the main
50 action.
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52 MR. RAMPTON: No, I did not say that. I said which were related
53 to the defence of consent, because what matters is whether
54 the Defendants, so far as consent is concerned -- because
55 consent is alleged to be consent to publication of the
56 leaflet complained of, and there are only two subsequent
57 publications relied on. As your Lordship observed earlier
58 today, that has nothing to do with the case.
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: As I understood it, you said there were only
