Day 077 - 25 Jan 95 - Page 66
1 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I would respectfully not wholly agree
2 with your Lordship's definition of the issues. In my
3 respectful submission, it is the Defendants' case that
4 there were four consignments of beef amounting roughly to
5 80 tonnes for a period between 1983 and 1984. It is the
6 Defendants' suspicion, or allegation I should say, that
7 that beef might have come from rainforest areas of Brazil.
8 It is not the Defendants' case, since they have no basis
9 for making it, that on any other occasion any beef was
10 imported to this country on behalf of McDonald's from
11 Brazil. I asked the question "had it ever happened since
12 this particular batch" and I got the answer "no". If
13 Ms. Steel and Mr. Morris know of a reason to contradict
14 that answer of Mr. Walker, why then, no doubt they will
15 disclose the relevant documents and put it to him in
16 cross-examination.
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not propose to comment on that. I read
19 the documents through. I underlined some. If it is easy
20 for you just to put the invoices in order for me so I can
21 make a note of the dates and the page numbers, then that
22 would be helpful.
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24 MR. RAMPTON: May I to make that easier, I am sorry we have not
25 had time to number these pages -----
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I have got my numbered. They start at 4 and
28 at the beginning of tab 4 and tab 5 they go through 1 to
29 26, and tab 5 of tab 5 which you are no longer on is
30 numbered 1 to 12 in my bundle.
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32 MR. RAMPTON: May I ask whether your Lordship's invoices begin a
33 page 1?
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35 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No. Page 1 is the 11th March letter to which
36 you have referred.
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38 MR. MORRIS: Tab 3 is what I think we are on.
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40 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We are now on tab 3.
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42 MR. RAMPTON: We are about to be on tab 3.
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44 MR. JUSTICE BELL: My tab 3 is numbered 1 through to 18.
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46 MS. STEEL: I do not think these are in exactly the right order
47 either.
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49 MR. JUSTICE BELL: By all means pick up any point you want to
50 make in cross-examination of them. I am merely inviting
51 Mr. Rampton -- does it involve going through all of them?
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53 MR. RAMPTON: All I can say is that I have tried to do the
54 arithmetic and within sort of 10 or 12,000 pounds of the
55 total of I think something like 84 tonnes, I cannot make it
56 quite add up.
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What would help me is if you can give me what
59 you think is the first document in time and the last
60 document in time.
