Day 205 - 17 Jan 96 - Page 47
1 MR. MORRIS: It might be less, OK.
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It might be less.
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5 MR. MORRIS: I will try and do that.
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7 MS. STEEL: I am not 100 per cent sure. I was not clear
8 whether you were saying that you had got updated pleadings
9 that had had the amendments added.
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I have got the amendment with regard to
12 Brazil.
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14 MS. STEEL: Incorporated into the pleadings?
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16 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, as particular C.
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18 MR. MORRIS: Is this the one that we successfully pursued, that
19 in the early 1990s Brazilian beef was exported for
20 McDonald's use from Braslo Limited to Argentina and
21 Switzerland? That was allowed; that should be in.
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23 MS. STEEL: On which page?
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25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: On page 3 of divider 1.
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27 MS. STEEL: Which part? About Brazil?
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: In paragraph C.
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31 MS. STEEL: We have not actually got a copy of the changed
32 abstract. I do not remember ever getting a copy, but -----
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34 MR. JUSTICE BELL: On 3rd October 1995, I gave a ruling on
35 various interlocutory matters, and on the first page at B
36 I said this: "One amendment relating to exports of
37 Brazilian beef was agreed between the parties. The result
38 is that the first sentence of the first amendment for which
39 I gave leave on 25th July 1995 should read: 'Brazilian beef
40 raised in regions causing the displacement of farmers into
41 Amazon forest areas has been supplied to McDonald's in
42 Brazil and to McDonald's UK and to McDonald's or their
43 suppliers in Argentina and Switzerland.'"
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45 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Now, the abstract which I have has a
48 paragraph C which has words to that effect, but does not
49 have the words at the end of the first sentence "and to
50 McDonald's or their suppliers in Argentina and
51 Switzerland".
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53 MS. STEEL: I think that that was added at a later date.
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55 MR. RAMPTON: It was based on what Dr. Gomez Gonzales had said
56 in the witness box -- it is coming back to me now -- that
57 he saw no reason why Brazilians should not export to
58 Argentina or Switzerland or anywhere else, except the
59 United States of course.
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