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     1   MS. STEEL:   No.
 
     2   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, that is a different one.  It was a
              survey carried out in this country which showed that X per
     3        cent had up to three meals a week.  We had a
              questionnaire, Mr. Rampton.  That is the one which asked
     4        about meals.  Beneath it had various dishes, cheeseburger,
              something else, and that was the questionnaire with no
     5        answers on it.  Then about two or three pages further on,
              if my recollection is right, we had an extract of what the
     6        response amounted to.  We had details on what percentage
              of customers had a meal once or twice, do you remember?
     7        We had six plus, was the one on the end.  We had an
              argument about whether that meant six or seven or more.
     8        What we did not have was an abstract of the answers as to
              what meals they ate.
     9
              Professor Wheelock came up with the answer which, I say in
    10        his absence, rather surprised me, drink be a meal.
              Therefore, it was thought it might be relevant to know
    11        what the people said they had eaten, because if it was
              possible to produce an abstract that X per cent eat twice
    12        a week, it might be equally easy to say they all ate
              cheeseburgers or a Big Mac, or 15 per cent of them went
    13        for a Big Mac.  Do you see what I mean?
 
    14   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, I do.
 
    15   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It might be very easy to produce that
              information, then we can see where, if anywhere, it takes
    16        us.
 
    17   MR. RAMPTON:  It sounds like evidence rather than discovery.
 
    18   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It may be, except that the percentages,
              eating one, two or three meals a week, was produced in
    19        documentary form.
 
    20   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, it may be easy to do by way of a summary
              than by actually producing volumes of documents.
    21
         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That was the second area in any event.  If
    22        I could just deal with accident statistics.  You may or
              may not want to argue it.  I have reminded myself what you
    23        said in opening about what they produce, looking at the
              number of restaurants.
    24
         MR. RAMPTON:  I think the words I used were .2.
    25
         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I cannot remember specifically.  All I will 
    26        indicate, as you know, I never decide anything until 
              I have heard all the argument, but at the moment I can see 
    27        a lot of reason for producing such accident statistics as
              they are, if they are reasonably readily available, and it
    28        does not involve looking at statistics for every
              restaurant and then adding them up.  I was left with the
    29        impression, I think, by the American witness -- I cannot
              remember, I have forgotten the American gentleman's name.
    30
         MR. MORRIS:  Mr. Beavers.

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