Day 277 - 10 Jul 96 - Page 37
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2 Q. You must have remembered that when you answered that
3 interrogatory in 1993. One does not forget three years of
4 one's life as easily as that, Miss Steel, does one?
5 A. You know, I have been to probably hundreds of meetings
6 in my life, Mr. Rampton, and, no, I can't specifically
7 remember how many I attended at London Greenpeace in 1989,
8 1990.
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10 Q. Well, can I go back to the photographs, please? I think I
11 had got as far as 7?
12 A. To be honest I do not even remember that I had not
13 attended the meeting on 14th June and it was only because
14 when I read Mr. Bishop's notes and I was not mentioned I
15 thought, well, that's strange, he has not got me down for
16 that meeting, Mr. Clare has, and then thinking about it I
17 thought, wait, that was when I was in the Outer Hebrides
18 because I remembered being there on the longest day of the
19 year.
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21 Q. Exactly, Miss Steel, exactly. Nobody who has a regular
22 occurrence in their life could possibly expect to remember
23 particular dates unless something peculiarly dramatic
24 happened on a particular date. They blur into each other.
25 I go there once a week, yes, I do regularly, but I can't
26 say what happened on 14th June. That is absolutely right
27 if I may say so?
28 A. No, you remember events, you don't remember the date
29 that they happened on unless the date has some
30 significance.
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32 Q. That's right. Now, can we turn, please, to photograph 9.
33 This is perhaps a matter for argument, but I think it is
34 only right that you should comment on it from the witness
35 box if you wish to do so. Do you or do you not agree that
36 that leaflet, which is sticking up from the box marked "McD
37 fact sheets", is one of the leaflets complained of this in
38 this libel action?
39 A. I couldn't say. It could be a Veggies one. I don't
40 know, it could be anything.
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42 Q. No, it couldn't be anything, but we will argue about that
43 later on in the case, Miss Steel.
44 A. Well, obviously it couldn't be an orange leaflet.
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46 Q. And then I want to know if I have understood correctly,
47 please, what you say that box was used for?
48 A. There was a stall box which had in it various leaflets
49 which were taken by people who were doing stalls. Just the
50 box would be taken to the stall. It would often have the
51 banner in it, sometimes scissors, string, cellotape, a
52 stapler, you know, pen and paper. Just the sort of thing
53 that you would want if you were doing a store.
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55 Q. And that box is this one, is that what you are telling us;
56 I haven't understood it you see?
57 A. That is what Miss Laporte and Mr. Gravett said, and
58 they were the ones that did stalls generally. And I do
59 remember that there was a stall box in the office and it
60 was kept on the shelves. I do not know that I personally
