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1 that it was inquiry agents who were keeping any such
2 campaign going.
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4 MS. STEEL: It is my recollection that Mr. Rampton did make
5 some comment to that effect.
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7 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Maybe it was, but let us clear the air now so
8 you know in the future.
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10 MS. STEEL: (To the witness): The next paragraph you go on to
11 say you went to the public house "where we remained until
12 11.10 p.m.. Here, I found out little else other than the
13 fact that most of the correspondence they received was in
14 response to particular campaigns that they ran and also
15 that they received many letters from people confusing them
16 with Greenpeace International."
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18 That was the situation, was it not, that letters came in
19 about particular campaigns and the particular people who
20 had a particular interest in that campaign would be the
21 ones that dealt with those particular letters?
22 A. It may well have been but not in my experience. In my
23 experience the mail was answered quite sporadically. It
24 would build up and then people would go in and have a day
25 of answering letters. There were times, as I said before,
26 that if it was something that it was felt someone was more
27 knowledgeable on, then letters were put to one side for
28 that person to deal with. But it was not a case, as far as
29 I can remember, of people going in and saying, "That letter
30 is for me and that letter is for him".
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32 Q. Right. In terms of correspondence about McDonald's, as you
33 have already said, generally that would be Mr. Gravett that
34 it would be put on one side for?
35 A. On the occasion that I -- on the occasion that
36 I recall, the notes that I have seen, on that instance that
37 is what I was informed, that they should be put to one side
38 and Mr. Gravett would deal with those.
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40 Q. Right. If you could just look at your statement, the first
41 statement that you made in tab 7. It should be 7A,
42 I think. It is dated 8th June, 1993.
43 A. Sorry, can you repeat the date?
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45 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Tab 7, divider 7, at the beginning of that
46 divider.
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48 MS. STEEL: In your statement in paragraph 7 you said, "In the
49 office I noted", and this was with reference to 2nd
50 November 1989, "I noted copies of the leaflet complained
51 of", and then it says at appendix 2, "which were stocked in
52 boxes on homemade shelfing". Then the solicitors had
53 originally written, "There were also filing cabinets packed
54 with leaflets", which you have changed to, "There was also
55 a filing cabinet packed with leaflets".
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57 The reference to "leaflets stocked in boxes" does not
58 actually appear in your notes. Do you think that is,
59 basically, a mistake and that you just referred to the fact
60 that there were various leaflets sitting on the shelves in
