Day 158 - 19 Jul 95 - Page 60


     
     1        inside the shaded red circle.  The point is that is the
     2        supply plant and they will take beef from up to 1,000
     3        kilometres from there just as the Barretos plant does.
     4
     5   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You develop this argument to me in the
     6        morning, because I do not want to go on long tonight.  If
     7        I were against you on that then think about whether you
     8        want to change the wording of your proposed amendment.
     9
    10   MR. MORRIS:  If McDonald's have nothing to hide, which of course
    11        we believe they have and that is why their whole policy in
    12        this area is absolutely shot through with contradictions
    13        and deceit ----
    14
    15   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You are going on to argue and I do not want
    16        to do it tonight.  Stop now. I think you will do yourself
    17        more justice in the morning.  The other interlocutory
    18        matter we have to deal with is the response to my ruling.
    19
    20   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, we have that ready.  There is the whole
    21        of the Convention.  Your Lordship will remember the film
    22        One Every Mile about the Strand and the Croydon
    23        restaurants.  Does your Lordship remember that?  There was
    24        a Channel 4 video which was never broadcast.
    25
    26   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    27
    28   MR. RAMPTON:  The witness coming on Friday used to be the
    29        manageress at the Strand restaurant, Mrs. Antenni. When
    30        Mrs. Brinley-Codd was looking at a dusty cupboard at
    31        Barlows the other day for something else she came upon
    32        (which she did not know she had) a Barlow's old file
    33        relating to that film.  In that file there was a whole lot
    34        of material, some of it privileged, some of it not, it has
    35        nothing to do with the issues in this case at all because
    36        there was a lot of correspondence between film makers and
    37        McDonald's about shooting schedules and so on, but in that
    38        file she found some material which we think is relevant to
    39        the issues in this case and, therefore, we thought it right
    40        to disclose it.  We are doing it now because that witness,
    41        as I say, is coming on Friday.  They may not eventually be
    42        relevant to her evidence at all because they are of more
    43        general relevance to the case, although there is one
    44        document which relates directly to the Strand.
    45
    46   MR. MORRIS:  Can I say I have an 800-page transcript of all the
    47        raw footage taken by the film makers in the filming.
    48        I have not had time even to look at it.  I certainly will
    49        try to bring it to make it available.  I am sure if people
    50        want me to I will try to get it copied before Friday, but 
    51        it may not be necessary to copy it if it is available to be 
    52        looked at.  So I will try to bring it in.  I have not had a 
    53        chance it look at it and, therefore, I cannot hardly ask
    54        any questions on it.  I certainly will bring it in.  It is
    55        from the film director herself.
    56
    57   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You do not need that before Mrs. Antenni, do
    58        you?  It would be before Miss Tobin.
    59
    60   MR. RAMPTON:  It depends.  If the Defendants are going to put

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