Day 270 - 28 Jun 96 - Page 16
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2 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What sort of comment are you expecting?
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4 MR. MORRIS: I am trying to be as non-leading as possible.
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6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: She just said she did not think that she was
7 at the previous meeting. I do not want any comment from
8 the witness. I want evidence. She has affirmed what she
9 said in the first paragraph on that page.
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11 MR. MORRIS: Then the next paragraph says:
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13 "With reference to McDonald's, Dave said that the first
14 fayre had been an anti-McDonald's day. This was about 6
15 years ago and every year since then they had had an annual
16 anti-McDonald's day."
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Would you just pause a moment. I assume, as
19 I said the other day when something similar was happening,
20 that when you read a note to a witness, if there is no
21 challenge to it from the witness, the witness is in effect
22 saying that that is an accurate record.
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24 MR. MORRIS: Right.
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26 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If you just bear that in mind. To avoid any
27 doubt, it would be simple if you read something out and
28 just say "is that your best recollection" or "do you think
29 that is right". Then there is no doubt about it.
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31 MR. MORRIS: Right. Just on this particular bit, I think it is
32 common ground that the fayre was only the previous couple
33 of years, not 6 years, and it is, like before, there is a
34 separate protest day and fayre, two separate days. Is what
35 you said about Helen the same, that you seem to have
36 jumbled this up?
37 A. It seems I might have done. I mean, I would have made
38 every attempt to record everything that was said with as
39 much accuracy as possible, but it may be that I
40 misunderstood something that was said.
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42 Q. So that was the impression that you got?
43 A. That was the impression that I got, yes.
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45 Q. It then says:
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47 "John then explained this was now changing and the fayre
48 was to be a London Greenpeace fayre."
49 A. Yes.
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51 Q. The next paragraph has got a list of workshops due to be at
52 the fayre. Would that be an accurate summary of the list
53 of workshops planned for that fayre?
54 A. Yes, yes. I would assume that I put down everything
55 that I could remember that had been mentioned.
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57 Q. If there had been any discussion about McDonald's at that
58 fayre that was mentioned at that meeting, would you have
59 made a note?
60 A. I am sure I would have picked up on it, yes.
