Day 272 - 02 Jul 96 - Page 18
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2 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a moment. They are 162, although
3 it has got at the top "report date", but they are in the
4 first person singular.
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6 MS. STEEL: That starts at 162, does it?
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: 162, yes.
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10 MS. STEEL: I will just number mine. Okay. If you go to page
11 163, this is about a list of stalls having been prepared by
12 Jane and Charlie and of which groups were invited to have
13 the stalls and various members either objected or agreed to
14 individual organisations being invited. Dave Morris
15 objected to any organisation that was a business but had to
16 compromise when it came to the beer stall.
17 A. Yes.
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19 Q. In his statement Mr. Bishop actually goes further and says
20 that you, myself and Mr. Morris were the ones participating
21 the most in the discussion about which organisations should
22 be invited. Do you have any comment to make about that?
23 A. Well, I mean, I do not really remember the meeting too
24 well. I think everyone who was present who had been
25 involved in the group for some time would have -- we would
26 have talked about it. I mean, there was certainly no,
27 there would have been no sort of idea of, you know, other
28 people telling other people what to do or who should have
29 come. It would have just been a group discussion. And
30 obviously Joan and Charlie, as they had prepared the list,
31 in a way had, you know, the biggest input into it, I would
32 say.
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34 Q. Right.
35 A. That is where the original list came from.
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37 Q. There is also reference on this page to a picket of
38 McDonald's restaurants in Seven Sisters Road on Saturday
39 4th August. Do you know who that picket was organised by?
40 A. To my recollection again it was organised by Hackney
41 and Islington Animal Rights. That was one of the two or
42 three McDonald's that the group regularly demonstrated
43 outside, had been doing for a number of years, Hackney and
44 Islington. Jane of course would have just brought it up,
45 like, as I said earlier, we did bring things up.
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: When you said that you regularly
48 demonstrated, you mean Hackney and Islington?
49 A. Yes, I do, yes.
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51 MS. STEEL: Right. Go on to 26th August?
52 A. The 26th?
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54 Q. The notes of Frances Tiller.
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Which date?
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58 MS. STEEL: 23rd August.
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: 184A I have got them as.