Day 247 - 10 May 96 - Page 54
1 Houses of Parliament have not. It just cannot help me make
2 my decision.
3
4 MS. STEEL: Just on the McDonald's documents. I mean, I might
5 be wrong but I think there have been occasions when we have
6 tried to refer to McDonald's documents and it has been said
7 that we do need to confirm that they are released by
8 somebody in the company or that they are ----
9
10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You did, but I did that for you at the very
11 beginning of the matter by establishing that this is
12 something they have put out to children, or students
13 rather, and therefore I did it with regard to the 'beneath
14 the arches'. You had to ask one question only. Would you
15 put out to students in this country making inquiry of you
16 anything which you did not accept, did not believe to be
17 true? The moment you get a 'yes' answer to that, and Mr.
18 Preston could hardly be expected to say no, the whole of it
19 goes in under the umbrella of company. You do not then
20 have to put sentence after sentence saying, 'Do you agree
21 with that?'
22
23 MR. MORRIS: Maybe it would be a good time to have a break?
24
25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Have a break but where we can move it
26 forward, can I just make this point? Your exercise in
27 preparing your cross-examination along these lines has not
28 been wasted because you have, effectively, got notes of the
29 points you want to make. Hopefully, you will be selective
30 about which are the strong ones when you come to make
31 comment to me in due course. What you do not have to do is
32 use Mr. Preston, I say for want of a better word, as an
33 achiever for their introduction.
34
35 I will come back at ten past 3 and I would like you to
36 decide, bearing in mind what I have just said, what you can
37 usefully and properly put to the Mr. Preston and what is
38 really just taking up time using him as the medium to pass
39 up information to me.
40
41 (Short adjournment)
42
43 MR. MORRIS: You do a pamphlet for potential franchisees; do you
44 not?
45 A. Yes.
46
47 Q. Is it true that franchisees are represented on almost all
48 McDonald's Policy Influencing Committees?
49 A. I think so, yes. "Almost all", do you mean 100 per
50 cent or?
51
52 Q. I do not know, I am just quoting?
53 A. I think most of them are, yes. All the major, yes.
54
55 Q. A question about staff: The crew members eating in at
56 McDonald's during their working periods, is the situation
57 in the UK -- we have had some figures; I think Mr. Wheelock
58 did a survey for McDonald's about staff meals, do you
59 recall that?
60 A. I do not recall it but go ahead.
