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     1        found with more information on it which Mr. Rampton found.
     2
     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, there is that one there.
     4
     5   MR. MORRIS:  We do not know, though, if there was more
     6        information on the version that has been found about the
     7        other matters as well.  So, for the sake of any confusion,
     8        if we can have the full versions of both documents.
     9
    10   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Correct me if I am wrong, I thought that was
    11        the full version of that document which you are holding.
    12
    13   MR. RAMPTON:  It is, so far as I know.
    14
    15   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  And what you are getting now is the document
    16        you have always had but without the blankings out?
    17
    18   MR. RAMPTON:  That is right.
    19
    20   MS. STEEL:  If this is just it on its own, it has no title on it
    21        or anything like that.  I find it hard to believe that Leo
    22        Burnett just kept one sheet on its own.
    23
    24   MR. RAMPTON:  No, my Lord.  I try to save time and I find, in
    25        fact, that I waste more time by having to explain what is
    26        perfectly obvious over and over again.  What happened was
    27        that Leo Burnett had this sheet (which is the last sheet of
    28        the second memorandum, I think it is January 1987) which
    29        was the schedule of publication.  We have not had it before
    30        because the documents we got came from McDonald's legal
    31        department and were not in this fuller form.  We have now
    32        got it from Leo Burnett.  I have produced it now because
    33        that is what we thought was a relevant document by reason
    34        of the footnotes at the bottom of the page.
    35
    36        In order to draw, what shall I say, the Defendants away
    37        from the repeated accusations that something has been
    38        covered up which they ought to be allowed to see, I have
    39        volunteered to show them the whole of both memorandums
    40        without the bits which I had originally blanked out.  They
    41        will be able to see from that that there is no foundation
    42        for their suspicion or, more particularly, for the
    43        allegations which they repeatedly make in court.  I hope
    44        when they have seen the document they will stop making
    45        those allegations.
    46
    47   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You look at the document without the blanked
    48        out bits.  If you have any further concern about it, raise
    49        it with me then, but look at that first.  We have enough
    50        practical problems without worrying about ones which are to 
    51        some extent hypothetical. 
    52 
    53   MR. MORRIS:  Right, OK.
    54
    55   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I cannot immediately call to mind where the
    56        blanked out memorandum is.  If someone at some stage can
    57        write where it is on that sheet, then I will put this sheet
    58        in next to it.  Do you want to go on to D, advertising,
    59        Mr. Morris?
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