Extracts from the ebook “John Donovan, Shell’s Nightmare” (now available on Amazon websites globally)
(BACKGROUND INFORMATION ABOUT SHELL’S EPIC 25 YEAR FEUD WITH JOHN DONOVAN – which puts the extracts below in overall context.)
From pages 50 & 51
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POSTERS ON DISPLAY AT SHELL HQ
On 23 September 1998, Shell made an unprecedented move to counter our lawful campaigning activities.
Shell put posters on public display at the Shell Centre in London, specifically targeting my father and me. We were the sole topic. I have never heard of a multinational corporation doing anything like this before or since.
Printed below is the content of the related leaflets distributed for or by Shell.
YOU MAY BE HANDED A LEAFLET OUTSIDE SHELL CENTRE BY MR ALFRED DONOVAN, FORMALLY OF A COMPANY CALLED DON MARKETING UK LIMITED.
YOU SHOULD BE AWARE THAT JOHN DONOVAN, A DIRECTOR OF DON MARKETING UK LIMITED, MR ALFRED DONOVAN’S SON, HAS ISSUED A WRIT AGAINST SHELL UK CLAIMING THAT HIS COMPANY INVENTED THE SMART LOYALTY CARD PROGRAMME.
MR DONOVAN’S ALLEGATIONS HAVE BEEN VERY CAREFULLY INVESTIGATED BY SHELL UK AND DISCUSSED IN DETAIL WITH MR DONOVAN AND HIS SOLICITORS. THE CLAIM IS BEING VIGOROUSLY DEFENDED.
AS SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW, MR DONOVAN HAS MADE SOME OFFENSIVE STATEMENTS ABOUT SHELL UK COLLEAGUES. WE REJECT SUCH ALLEGATIONS ABSOLUTELY AND ARE WHOLLY CONFIDENT THAT OUR COLLEAGUES HAVE ACTED IN THIS MATTER AT ALL TIMES IN GOOD FAITH AND IN LINE WITH OUR LONG STANDING BUSINESS PRINCIPLES.
23RD SEPTEMBER 1998 PXX COMMUNICATIONS
ANOTHER DEFAMATORY SHELL PRESS RELEASE
A further press release issued by Shell in November 1998 contained defamatory allegations about me.
The same allegations were also repeated in a Shell internal magazine article under the headline: “DEFENDING THE COMPANY’S GOOD NAME AND REPUTATION.” The article was authored by Shell Legal Director Richard Wiseman. I was accused of being dishonourable and of smearing a Shell employee.
It was only as a result of a Subject Access Request under the Data Protection Act that I found out many years after the trial about these additional publications of allegations by Shell. These materially important items of evidence had not been disclosed in the discovery process.
Extracts from the John Donovan ebook end.
(Shell later settled the high court litigation brought in relation to SHELL SMART and the libel actions. Shell paid all legal costs said to be over £1 million pounds and John Donovan received a secret payment as part of the settlement, the full terms of which were deliberately withheld by Shell from the Judge, the late Mr Justice Laddie. The judge made comments at the end of the trial unaware of the terms of settlement. The comments later triggered a repudiation of the settlement by Shell.)
EARLIER EXTRACTS
John Donovan, Shell’s nightmare: Genesis
John Donovan, Shell’s nightmare: Süddeutsche Zeitung article
GERMAN TV: John Donovan’s revelations cost Shell billions
ARGUS FSU ENERGY INTERVIEW WITH KREMLIN ATTACK DOG, OLEG MITVOL
How Shell lost its majority stake in Sakhalin II
John Donovan, Group Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell PLC companies
Donovan family relationship with Shell
Long association with the Royal Dutch Shell
Since the 1990s, Shell has been at war with John Donovan
An unscrupulous Shell executive
SHELL PROJECT HERCULES RIGGED TENDER PROCESS
Shell caught red-handed in Make Money deception
Donovan Defamation Actions Against Shell
Shell in legal row over Smart Card
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