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1 anti-McDonald's fairs".
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3 McDonald's have to show that we have for many years taken
4 leading roles in the anti-McDonald's campaign and that we
5 have organised demonstrations and anti-McDonald's fairs,
6 and there has been no evidence to prove that in this case.
7 Indeed, I referred yesterday to the evidence of
8 Mr. Nicholson in relation to the October 1989 picket of
9 McDonald's head office, and on day 250, page 37, line 28
10 I asked him, "So when you say in your statement that prior
11 to the demonstration you were able to learn the identity of
12 two of the organisers, that is not to be taken as you knew
13 that myself and Mr. Gravett had organised the
14 demonstration?" He said, "No, not at all".
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16 As I said before, he said on day 259, page 5, line 40 that
17 he had no evidence that I had organised the demonstration
18 and, also, you would remember the quote that I referred to
19 yesterday where Mr. Nicholson said that he had kept an eye
20 on me during that demonstration to see if I appeared to be
21 in charge, or what have you, and that in his view I did not
22 appear to be in charge and that I had kept myself to
23 myself.
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25 So, in terms of 1989, there is absolutely no evidence
26 whatsoever that I organised that demonstration or was in
27 charge of it, or whatever, because we have heard no
28 evidence from anybody else to that effect, and you have
29 heard my evidence that I did not organise that
30 demonstration and you have heard the evidence of
31 Mr. Gravett that he did organise it. There is no evidence
32 about Mr. Morris that he even attended the demonstration,
33 let alone any evidence of organising it.
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35 In terms of the other demonstrations, on day 258, page 37,
36 line 20, when I was cross-examining Mr. Nicholson again,
37 I asked him, "So in terms of who organised the October 1991
38 demonstration, you would not know who organised that?" He
39 said, "No." I said, "You would not have any evidence about
40 that?", and he said "No." I said, "That would also be true
41 for October 1992?", and he said, "And there on." And I
42 said, "1993, 1994", and he said, "Yes." Then I asked him,
43 "On your evidence in fact you would not have any evidence
44 at all about who organised anything from London Greenpeace,
45 after around January 1991?" There was a bit of a confusing
46 discussion there, and he then said, "No, not after January
47 1991" in the end.
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49 You asked him the question that he did not have any
50 information from private investigators about what had gone
51 on after that date, and he said that that was correct.
52 Then I asked him, "Nor have you any evidence from any other
53 source apart from seeing us attending certain
54 demonstrations?" and he said, "That is right."
55 Mr. Nicholson is accepting that they have no evidence that
56 we organised any of the demonstrations from 1992 onwards.
57 They may wish to argue that it can be inferred from
58 attending the demonstration that you are the organiser, but
59 that is not the same thing as evidence. Obviously, we are
60 going to argue strongly against that, that you cannot draw
