Day 064 - 08 Dec 94 - Page 68
1 home at the moment. If it is only in the counterclaim
2 file, I would like someone just to lend me a copy for the
3 moment. In any event, Mr. Oakley should have a copy of the
4 one you are relying on. (Handed).
5
6 MR. MORRIS: Did you also approve the background briefing to the
7 press that went out, the three-page briefing as well that
8 went out?
9 A. No, I did not.
10
11 Q. Did you see that one?
12 A. Mike Love would have approved that.
13
14 Q. On this leaflet that you issued nationally, do you remember
15 the issuing of the leaflet?
16 A. I do.
17
18 Q. I think it was said in the Defence that 300,000 were
19 printed -- not in the Defence; Paul Preston said 300,000
20 were issued. What was going to be done with the leaflets
21 when the stores got them?
22 A. Well -----
23
24 Q. Were they for display, basically?
25 A. They were sent to the restaurants (a) because we had a
26 lot of concerned staff out there who had heard that this
27 trial was going on; they did not quite understand what it
28 was all about and we thought we should set out the main
29 points of the case. Additional copies were sent to the
30 restaurants for the staff to hand out to customers who may
31 have similar concerns about what is this all about.
32
33 Q. That is what I thought. So, 300,000. So would that have
34 been displayed in the leaflet racks like the other
35 leaflets?
36 A. I am not certain if it was displayed or not. They
37 certainly had copies for customers who wanted to know what
38 the case was about.
39
40 Q. If you go to point 4 it says: "The leaflet has been
41 distributed worldwide since 1984". Did you check that fact
42 before you approved this leaflet?
43 A. Not specifically, no.
44
45 Q. So you do not know if it is true or not, do you?
46 A. I am given to understand because, you know, I was not
47 responsible then, but I was given to understand that this
48 case originated back to 1984; the leaflets being
49 distributed in the UK, and we had certainly had comments
50 from other countries around the world that they too had
51 seen these leaflets distributed in their country.
52
53 Q. So who told you?
54 A. How they got there or who distributed them, I do not
55 know.
56
57 Q. Who told you that the leaflet had been distributed
58 worldwide since 1984?
59 A. Other McDonald's companies.
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