Day 252 - 20 May 96 - Page 60
1 A. It is one factor. I can think of more serious ones or
2 more important ones, like lack of physical activity.
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4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Lack of --
5 A. Physical activity
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7 MS. STEEL: Right, but you would agree it is one of the factors
8 anyway?
9 A. No doubt, yes.
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11 Q. Diet that is?
12 A. Yes.
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14 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a moment. Is there a prospect of
15 completing Professor Naismith.
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17 MR. MORRIS: We think with a bit of goodwill on all sides we can
18 probably finish our cross-examination in about fifteen
19 minutes.
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21 MR. RAMPTON: I have about ten minutes I would think because
22 there is some materials in here is simply because, I know
23 Mr. Morris has been------
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25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let us see if we can complete Professor
26 Naismith. The reason I ask is that if you were not going
27 to complete him, I would like to rise now because there is
28 something else I could do, but if there is any possibility
29 of completing Professor Naismith, let us say in the next
30 half-hour, we ought to try and achieve it.
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32 MR. RAMPTON: Can I say this now, it might save time. I would
33 quite like to know what your Lordship does want me to do.
34 It does seem to me quite a lot of this cross-examination
35 readmits passages in Professor Naismith's original report
36 which were excluded by your Lordship, particularly in
37 relation of course to McDonald's food.
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39 MS. STEEL: We have not asked anything about food.
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41 MR. RAMPTON: No, no, no. It is no good asking general
42 questions about western diet and whether it is of little or
43 no nutritional value for example in a case in which the
44 whole context is McDonald's food.
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46 MR. MORRIS: No, we have talked about diet. We have
47 deliberately kept off the issues which were ruled
48 inadmissible.
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50 MR. RAMPTON: In that case the cross-examination is irrelevant
51 and I do not believe it was meant to be. Unless it bears
52 upon McDonald's food and the effect of McDonald's food on
53 the diet the whole of this cross-examination has been a
54 complete waste of time.
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56 MR. MORRIS: Well, then why call the witness? He can only have
57 been called his evidence that was admissible was relevant
58 and we have dealt with what his evidence was and we have
59 tested it.
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