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     1        mentioned but nothing significant.
     2
     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  So be it.  All I want you to remember is that
     4        an attack on the validity of the body's judgment maybe a
     5        means towards an end, but that is what it is.  The end is
     6        actually showing, if you can, that additives used by
     7        McDonald's have or have been known to have adverse effects.
     8
     9   MR. MORRIS:  I am going to be moving on very soon; I am
    10        conscious of the need to move on.
    11
    12   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I will intervene at this stage, if
    13        I may?  I say it with some heartfelt emphasis.  I am
    14        frankly sick and tired of sitting here listening to people
    15        at my client's expense using this court as a political
    16        platform.  If the Defendants have a case to make that the
    17        additives that McDonald's use in their food are hazardous
    18        to human health, let them make it.
    19
    20   MR. MORRIS:  I am sick and tired of Mr. Rampton making
    21        completely irrelevant and unhelpful comments.  We are going
    22        through the evidence in order to establish our view.
    23        I have not made a single political statement since the
    24        opening speeches certainly in this trial, and I do not
    25        intend to do so either.
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  Just think of what you said because
    28        that may illustrate the point.  "We are going through the
    29        evidence in order to establish our view".
    30
    31   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
    32
    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You have to distinguish that from what you
    34        strictly are doing, or should be doing, which is
    35        establishing your case against McDonald's as pleaded with
    36        some room for extension according to the statements.
    37
    38   MR. MORRIS:  That is exactly what I have said.
    39
    40   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Carry on now try.  Try and distinguish
    41        between the witness just expressing what may be his lack of
    42        satisfaction with the way things are and what you are
    43        trying to establish in the case.  I, obviously, have
    44        understood the purpose of this line, but be aware that time
    45        comes when you have reached the extent of its value and you
    46        have to get down to the hard and fast allegations.
    47
    48   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, I am very close to doing that.
    49
    50   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  On you go then. 
    51 
    52   MR. MORRIS:  Right.  When I said "our view" before, I did not 
    53        mean our personal view; I meant of relevance to the case.
    54
    55   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Very well.
    56
    57   MR. MORRIS (To the witness):  One question we could get out the
    58        way is the Delaney cause in America which the Plaintiffs
    59        have kindly served a document on.  I will read it out.  It
    60        was just served, I think it was, yesterday by the

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