Day 255 - 23 May 96 - Page 04
1 A. Yes, I do.
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3 Q. This does not appear to stem from London Greenpeace?
4 A. No, I do not think it did. This is one of the
5 Elkington books and that was a separate issue.
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7 Q. One of whose books, sorry?
8 A. Elkington.
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: One of?
11 A. Elkington, my Lord, is the author or co-author of the
12 book.
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14 MS. STEEL: This was published in 1987 with the date of action as
15 June 1989?
16 A. Yes.
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18 Q. Do you remember that as being the date of action?
19 A. No, not really.
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21 Q. Do you know whether you would have waited 2 years to take
22 action or whether it was just that you did not find out
23 about it until 19?
24 A. No. I am trying to bring it back now. I think the
25 reason for 1989 is that what first came to our knowledge,
26 I am not sure of this, was the Green Consumer Guide, which
27 was John Elkington's better known publication, and it was
28 as a result of taking action against that, but we had a
29 meeting with John Elkington when he agreed to reprint both
30 versions taking out the allegations against McDonald's and
31 the rainforests.
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33 If you see "action" on both books were in June 1989 and
34 that was the result of the meeting that we had.
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36 Q. That is number 8; is it?
37 A. Yes.
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39 Q. I see, so it was when he published the Green Consumer Guide
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41 A. -- The Green Consumer Guide. I am sure that was the one
42 that was brought to my attention and we came across another
43 one as a result of that enquiry.
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45 Q. Again, while we are on it, tab 8 does not appear to be from
46 London Greenpeace?
47 A. No. I have never associated it with London Greenpeace.
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49 Q. What it says in tab 8, the bit that you sued over?
50 A. We did not sue.
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52 Q. Well, wrote a solicitor's letter over?
53 A. I am not sure that we did that actually. I remember
54 having a meeting with Elkington and his publishers.
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56 Q. Right. Presumably you would not have been able to arrange
57 that without first writing a letter?
58 A. We may have written to him inviting him to come and
59 talk to us.
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