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     1   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If you look in the other volume you will find
     2        the complete statement with the signature at the end.
     3
     4   MR. RAMPTON:  In paragraph 4 on the first page, Mr. Nicholson?
     5        A.  Yes.
     6
     7   Q.   You tell us that a copy of the pamphlet 'What's wrong with
     8        McDonald's', a copy of which is attached to this statement,
     9        appendix 1, "first came into my possession in 1987 when the
    10        demonstration took place outside McDonald's Head Office in
    11        East Finchley on 16th October.  This was the third year in
    12        succession that an anti-McDonald's demonstration organised
    13        by Greenpeace London had taken place outside the Company's
    14        Head Office."  That is incorrect so far as the chronology
    15        is concerned?
    16        A.  Yes, it is.
    17
    18   Q.   Do you know how that mistake came to be made?
    19        A.  Yes, my proof of evidence was taken by
    20        Mrs. Brinley-Codd in 1990 and I think what I was saying was
         at that time there had been 3 previous years
    22        demonstrations.
    23
    24   Q.   While we are on that, you tell us that you went to the
    25        demonstration '87, '88 and '89?
    26        A.  Yes.
    27
    28   Q.   Did you go to the one in 1990 do you remember?
    29        A.  I paid a couple of casual visits to that one.
    30
    31   Q.   At the back of this part of your statement there is a
    32        photographic copy?
    33        A.  Yes.
    34
    35   Q.   It looks like -- that?
    36        A.  Yes.
    37
    38   Q.   Can I just show you an original document, please?  Perhaps
    39        you could show it to the Defendants first.  They have
    40        already seen it.  (Handed).  Would you show it to his
         Lordship as well (Handed).
    42
    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL: Thank you.
    44
    45   MR. RAMPTON:  Would you tell us what that is, Mr. Nicholson?
    46        A.  This is the leaflet that was being handed out outside
    47        of Head Office and the demonstration in 1987, and that was
    48        the first time I was actually handed one myself.
    49
    50   Q.   Somebody has written on the top of the front page of that 
    51        leaflet? 
    52        A.  Yes. 
    53
    54   Q.   Over the print, above the print, the year 1989?
    55        A.  Yes.
    56
    57   Q.   Do you recognise that writing?
    58        A.  No.
    59
    60   Q.   No.  It is not yours?