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1 listen to the transcript being read out, which is not the
2 best evidence anyway.
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4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No. Do you really want to read everything?
5 I do not mind you pointing to this highlight and that
6 highlight and saying, "Just so you understand we say it is
7 relevant on that matter". Although you would presumably do
8 that, insofar as you thought it might be productive, in the
9 autumn. But I cannot see any point in reading it out. It
10 has been shown on the video. If you are worried about
11 publication, you need not be. Because it is not, if it is
12 Civil Evidence Act, subject to any implied undertaking as
13 to none disclosure to people not concerned with the case,
14 which is the same with regard to discovered documents.
15 Because it is not a discovered document, it is a Civil
16 Evidence Act statement or series of Civil Evidence Act
17 statements, because more than one person speaks on it.
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19 But I really cannot see any point in reading it out.
20 You are not suffering any censorship and I have actually
21 heard it, I will not say from the horse's mouth, but from
22 the mouth of Mr. Rensi and his colleagues and faceless,
23 from those who phoned in.
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25 MR. MORRIS: Yes. I am not that bothered about reading it out.
26 Obviously, we have alluded to the bits in the article
27 anyway. I was just a little bit -- because I have not got
28 it in front of me, I will look at it over the break.
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30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I suggest you leave it there. Because you
31 highlighted the bits you particularly want to; I have made
32 some notes on it already. I think I can probably see where
33 it might be relevant to an issue and where it might not be.
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35 MR. RAMPTON: I know I have got one, Mr. Morris's up to date
36 marked copies somewhere, I am afraid it is not here, my
37 Lord, but I am quite happy to give your Lordship one at
38 some stage.
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40 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I have got one already.
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42 MR. RAMPTON: Then I do not understand what this is all about.
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44 MR. JUSTICE BELL: As I say, I noted it up.
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46 MR. MORRIS: There is one other thing I was going to say. I
47 have not had time to look at yet, but I have got the -- I
48 was trying to check out a couple of the violations of child
49 labour laws by McDonald's stores in the USA, in Trenton New
50 Jersey. If you remember, in particular there was the Fair
51 Lawn one, which was a McDonald's McCop-co store. Then
52 there was another store, and I have actually been sent from
53 the US Department of Labour the official paperwork to do
54 with their successful prosecution or fine of the second
55 store.
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57 But as far as the Fair Lawn store, I am still waiting
58 for those details. The reason I say this is because the
59 Fair Lawn store is actually the one that is more important,
60 because it goes to the credibility of Mr. Stein, in
