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1 Ms. Link's statement is in relation to that. She also
2 deals with incineration; and, with regard to incineration,
3 the same problem seems to me to apply. I have already had
4 a bit of evidence about incineration, but at the moment
5 I am having the greatest difficulty seeing what relevance
6 that has to anything said in the leaflet. She also deals
7 with recycling and reducing waste generally. If you wanted
8 to call her in relation to those matters alone, subject to
9 anything Mr. Rampton said -- you may think you have your
10 evidence on that, but if you wanted to call her about that,
11 subject to anything Mr. Rampton said, I could see no
12 objection to that, because I can see that may relate to
13 environment/index.html">litter, which can be said to be a valid issue.
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15 At the moment, in order to help get you going if you
16 disagree with me, I am having the greatest difficulty
17 seeing the relevance to anything in the leaflet, let alone
18 anything which might be said to be defamatory of
19 McDonald's, of evidence in relation to wood pulp processing
20 or incineration.
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22 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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24 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Sit down, if you like. I think we ought to
25 decide today whether we are going to have any evidence on
26 those topics. I will just keep talking for the moment,
27 Mr. Morris, in an attempt to help. It is really just that
28 part of the leaflet which appears in one column, with the
29 box "58 acres per minute" at the top and then the text of
30 that box, the headline "Why it is wrong for McDonald's to
31 destroy rainforest", and then two sub-headlines, "Pet food
32 and environment/index.html">litter" and "Colonial Invasion", and the text which
33 appears under those headings. Do you have the bundle of
34 abstract of pleadings?
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36 MR. MORRIS: Yes, I have.
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I invite you just to look at that for a
39 moment.
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41 MR. MORRIS: Yes. It is recycling and waste at tab 2. Shall
42 I say what I am going to say?
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44 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, unless -----
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46 MR. MORRIS: Page 2 of recycling and waste, basically, the
47 introduction, the fundamental point, is that production and
48 disposal of packaging is damaging to the environment. That
49 the first point in that section. I note that -----
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51 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a moment. You say that is the
52 effect of it all, do you?
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54 MR. MORRIS: No. That is the first line of that section.
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Oh, I see that. I have a note of that. If
57 I carried on, I was going to refer you to that, but say
58 there is nothing specific -- so that you can correct me if
59 I am wrong -- which relates to paper making?
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