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     1        A.  Yes, I do.
     2
     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.
     6
     7   Q.   One of whose books, sorry?
     8        A.  Elkington.
     9
    10   MR. JUSTICE BELL: One of?
    11        A.  Elkington, my Lord, is the author or co-author of the
    12        book.
    13
    14   MS. STEEL: This was published in 1987 with the date of action as
    15        June 1989?
    16        A.  Yes.
    17
    18   Q.   Do you remember that as being the date of action?
    19        A.  No, not really.
    20
    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.
    32
    33        If you see "action" on both books were in June 1989 and
    34        that was the result of the meeting that we had.
    35
    36   Q.   That is number 8; is it?
    37        A.  Yes.
    38
    39   Q.   I see, so it was when he published the Green Consumer Guide
    40         ----
         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.
    44
    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.
    48
    49   Q.   What it says in tab 8, the bit that you sued over?
    50        A.  We did not sue. 
    51 
    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.
    55
    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.
    60