Day 245 - 07 May 96 - Page 21
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2 Q. You can put that one away. If you can get out the
3 supplementary bundle which was served on Friday?
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It there one up there?
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7 MS. STEEL: There is not one up there so I will hand it up.
8 (Handed)
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: For my own purposes, I will call this
11 "Supplementary 9" because Supplementary 8 was as far as we
12 have got, I think, was it not? Do you remember we had a
13 debate about whether I had ever had a copy of it?
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15 MS. STEEL: I have lost track of how many supplementary bundles
16 we have.
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We will call this "Supplementary 9" anyway.
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20 MS. STEEL: Thank you. If you turn to tab 1 of that?
21 A. There are no tabs here.
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If you can do your best. I think there are
24 probably numbers in the top right-hand corner. It is the
25 front page anyway, the first page.
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27 MS. STEEL: This is a press release to News Editors concerning,
28 this one is about the appeal relating to a jury trial and
29 parts of the case which have been struck out and the appeal
30 was to be heard in March 1994.
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32 According to your Further and Better Particulars of the
33 Defence to Counterclaim, this press release was sent to The
34 Express, The Mail, The mirror, The Telegraph, The Financial
35 Times, The Guardian The Independent, The Star, The Sun, The
36 Times, Today, The Evening Standard, BBC TV News, BBC
37 Breakfast News, Channel 4 GMTV, ITN, Sky News, Newsroom
38 South-East, London Tonight, BBC Radio News, Independent
39 Radio News and GLR.
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41 If you look at the second page of this, do you see in the
42 background section the third star?
43 A. Yes.
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45 Q. It says:
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47 "In December 1984, McDonald's solicitors wrote to the
48 group" -- that being London Greenpeace -- "expressing
49 concern about the leaflet" -- which is the leaflet which is
50 the subject of the libel action -- "stating that it was
51 defamatory and requesting that the organisation
52 disassociated themselves from the leaflet and its
53 contents." That is not true, is it?
54 A. That is the subject we just spoke about a few moments
55 ago in paragraph 16 and 17 as being amended.
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57 Q. This press release that you sent out, is not true, is it?
58 A. It was thought to be true at the time.
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60 Q. But you can confirm that it is not true?
