Day 249 - 14 May 96 - Page 44

     
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     2   Q.   What work were they doing for you?
     3        A.  Quite a lot.  They reported back to me on Transnational
     4        Information Centre Limited, you know, an organisation
     5        unconnected with London Greenpeace.
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     7   Q.   What other work were they doing for you?
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     9   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I am not at all sure that is a proper
    10        question.
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    12   MS. STEEL:  All right, I will rephrase it.
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    14   MR. RAMPTON:  It may have a point which relates to this case,
    15        but I rather doubt it.
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    17   MS. STEEL:  I will rephrase it.  What work were they doing for
    18        you that caused them to send you information about
    19        London Greenpeace?
    20        A.  They attended a meeting held by Transnational
         Information Exchange, which is the parent organisation of
    22        Transnational Information Centre Limited.  This meeting was
    23        to do with the cocoa industry, as far as I can remember.
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    25   Q.   The what?
    26        A.  The cocoa industry.  So, they obviously were not
    27        attending on our behalf at that time, but at that meeting
    28        literature of yours was distributed -- sorry, not yours, of
    29        London Greenpeace was distributed.
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    31   Q.   Which literature?
    32        A.  The pamphlet.  I believe it was the pamphlet complained
    33        of, so it would be around 1987.
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    35   Q.   Why did they contact you about this?
    36        A.  Because we were mentioned and we were one of their
    37        clients.
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    39   Q.   You were already one of their clients at that time?
    40        A.  We had been one of their clients for some years.
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    42   Q.   Right.  They also provide information on workers, do they
    43        not, and employment matters?
    44        A.  I am not sure.  I do not think I have ever received any
    45        information from them on that kind of thing.  Union
    46        activities they may have reported on; you know, big union
    47        activities when unions were planning strikes and things
    48        like that.
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    50   Q.   They might have reported that to you? 
    51        A.  Well, I would not have been all that interested in that 
    52        work.  I would not have asked them to report that to me. 
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    54   Q.   That is their field though, is it not?
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    56   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Could we just pause a moment?  I understand
    57        why you ask what steps were taken at various stages in
    58        order to find out partly when there were periods when no
    59        steps were being taken, and in so far as there might have
    60        been inquiries of some other organisation to get