Day 205 - 17 Jan 96 - Page 40


     
     1        application for a copy of that video.  Our best information
     2        is that it was broadcast on November 30th by the Oakbrook
     3        satellite channel from Oakbrook, Illinois, Headquarters of
     4        McDonald's, to the local stores and others.  I do not know
     5        exactly who received their internal video channel.  It is a
     6        substantially long video of something like a couple of
     7        hours.  I do not know exactly.  Ed Rensi and two other
     8        executives speak on the film, amongst other things.  So,
     9        that is basically it really.
    10
    11   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you want to respond to that now or -----
    12
    13   MR. RAMPTON:  Again, my first reaction on reading this is that
    14        it is open to doubt whether any of this is of any relevance
    15        to any of the issues in the case, but that is a first
    16        reaction from reading the underlined bits.  The rest does
    17        not seem to have an awful lot to do with McDonald's.  But I
    18        would like to make enquiries in any event.  I certainly
    19        cannot see anything in the first column that is of
    20        conceivable relevance.
    21
    22   MS. STEEL:   There is, for example, the thing under "subfiles"
    23        about increasing employee satisfaction to 72 per cent which
    24        might be thought to be relevant.
    25
    26   MR. MORRIS:  It is all relevant.  The bits that are not relevant
    27        I did not underline.
    28
    29   MR. RAMPTON:  We can argue about that -----
    30
    31   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  There is an argument about whether the bits
    32        underlined are relevant to any issue in the case.
    33
    34   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, there certainly is.
    35
    36   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You had better come back on Monday morning
    37        with that.  Presumably, any video might or might not be
    38        disclosable.
    39
    40   MR. RAMPTON:  Might, yes.
    41
    42   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  But you would want to make enquiries about it
    43        first.
    44
    45   MR. RAMPTON:  I certainly would, I would like to see it first
    46        too.  I may not be able to come back on Monday morning
    47        about that, since the video tape, so far as one can tell
    48        from this article, is an American document.  We would have
    49        to get it, first of all, transcribed into English format
    50        and then flown over here.  As the Defendants probably do 
    51        not appreciate, my Lord, it is me and Mrs. Brinley-Codd 
    52        that make the decisions as to relevance initially and not 
    53        the clients -- and Mr. Atkinson.
    54
    55   MR. MORRIS:  Shall I just, we are leaving over Dr. Millstone and
    56        Corry main fry stations until Monday, are we?  I am
    57        obviously seeking leave.
    58
    59   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What, as I understand Mr. Rampton is, in
    60        effect, saying, that Mr. Alimi's further

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