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1 Safety Executive accident prevention advisory unit in
2 1992. And this is all verified by McDonald's lead witness
3 from their first Plaintiff, responsible officially for
4 bringing the case.
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6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Who was?
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8 MR. MORRIS: Mr. Beavers. What I am saying, not himself
9 personally, but ----
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Why say it?
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13 MR. MORRIS: Well, officially he was here as the lead witness
14 of the first Plaintiff.
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16 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Why go on and say "responsible officially for
17 bringing the case"?
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19 MR. MORRIS: When I said officially I meant that ----
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21 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I will tell you why I have interrupted you
22 there. I am faithfully taking down all these references.
23 Some of them will turn out to be inaccurate, because they
24 always are, everyone always gets something wrong. I am not
25 going to make a great thing out of it, but every time you
26 say something which I know is wrong, it rather shatters my
27 faith in some of the other things.
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29 MR. MORRIS: I did not express that very well.
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No.
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33 MR. MORRIS: I did not mean that he personally was responsible
34 for bringing the case, but officially he came -----
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36 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I thought it was going to be one of your
37 points that we do not know even now who was responsible for
38 bringing the case.
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40 MR. MORRIS: Nobody will admit responsibility for it.
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42 MR. RAMPTON: Can I intervene. I freely admit that I thought
43 Mr. Beavers was going to tell your Lordship what were the
44 reasons why the case was brought from the corporation. It
45 turned out when he got here that he did not know.
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I know. That is the point I am taking with
48 Mr. Morris. Anyway, carry on, do not be distracted by what
49 I say.
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51 MR. MORRIS: What I meant to say was he was here as the person
52 from the first Plaintiff who would know, who would be
53 responsible for why the case was brought, but he did not
54 know. So that is why I said officially. I did not mean to
55 imply that he had actually brought it himself. But I am
56 saying that his evidence is given added weight because of
57 the position that he was given in the case. That is what
58 I was trying to say.
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60 The only other few points I have about his evidence is he
