Day 245 - 07 May 96 - Page 39
1 Preston?
2 A. Ms. Steel, I am not lying.
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4 Q. In fact lying to 2 MPs?
5 A. I am not lying to 2 MPs. I do not lie.
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7 Q. If you turn to tab 11, or document number 11, this is a
8 letter to a member of the public dated 27th February 1996?
9 A. Yes.
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11 Q. To a Mr. Wood in Liverpool. Again on the second page of
12 that, it says that it has never been your intention to seek
13 damages or to recover costs from the Defendants. So you
14 are also lying to the public again?
15 A. Well, I am not lying to the public and I am not lying
16 to 2 MPs. I have stated my case now 3 times. I do not know
17 what more I can do.
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19 Q. Can I just ask you about your statement dated 8th March
20 1996. Was it all drawn up on that day or did you have
21 discussions before then?
22 A. I certainly knew that I was going to have to make a
23 supplementary statement regarding the counterclaim.
24 Whether I talked about them in the morning of or the
25 afternoon before, I do not actually remember. I am sure
26 I did not go in and write the thing in a half an hour
27 sitting with counsel. I took a little longer than that.
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29 Q. The point in paragraph 17 of your statement?
30 A. Yes?
31
32 Q. About no letter having been sent before the action which
33 was in the counterclaim pleadings?
34 A. Yes.
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36 Q. When were you aware of that? Do you keep abreast of what
37 is going on with the case and get notified of when there
38 are new pleadings in the case?
39 A. I am sure I do not catch them all but I am reasonably
40 au fait with what is happening, yes.
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42 Q. I have not got a date for when those particular
43 counterclaim pleadings were served but I am sure it was
44 quite some time before your statement was made. I do not
45 know if the Plaintiffs can help with it. Do you have the
46 counterclaim?
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What are you asking about now?
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50 MS. STEEL: The point where we say in our counterclaim pleadings
51 that there was no letter sent to us. I think it is in the
52 Further and Better Particulars of the Reply to the Defence
53 to Counterclaim. I think they should be towards the back
54 of all the pleadings. I think it was quite a small
55 document.
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57 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What you said in paragraph 17(c) of your
58 Defence and Counterclaim was that the words in the releases
59 meant that you and Mr. Morris, as members and
60 representatives of London Greenpeace, had deliberately
