Day 046 - 04 Nov 94 - Page 65


     
     1   Q.   So you would not agree with that?
     2        A.  I think that advertising is important.  I have said
     3        that quite often.  I also believe that the in-store
     4        experience is the most important.
     5
     6   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I do object to partial reading.  It is
     7        such a waste of time.  One has to read the whole thing.
     8
     9   MS. STEEL:  I do not see how reading the whole thing makes any
    10        difference to the question I asked.  I do not think it was
    11        that unfair -- I do not think it was unfair at all.
    12
    13   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, Do not bother about it.
    14
    15   MR. RAMPTON:  Read the next paragraph.
    16
    17   THE WITNESS:  Again I think the ad speaks for itself.
    18
    19   MS. STEEL:  OK.  I will read the next paragraph.
    20
    21   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Read the whole -- are you going to ask any
    22        further questions?
    23
    24   MS. STEEL:  "Our advertising is people to people - an invitation
    25        from our people to our customers" -----
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, I am not asking you to; just allow
    28        Mr. Green, give him a moment while he reads it through.
    29
    30   THE WITNESS:  Yes.
    31
    32   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What do you want to ask further, Ms. Steel,
    33        on that, if anything?
    34
    35   MS. STEEL:  Actually I had finished and I do not think that
    36        Mr. Rampton's intervention made any difference whatsoever.
    37
    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I will not enter into squabbles at this time
    39        of the day.  I think, Mr. Rampton, it would help if you do
    40        want more read, if you just said:  "Will you please read
    41        this as well?" because every time you say something like
    42        it, it is such a waste of time.  There is a minor explosion
    43        which, I have to say, if you are going to prod people, is
    44        not entirely unjustified, and then we have a squabble like
    45        this at quarter to four when we are trying to finish
    46        Mr. Green without curtailing the Defendants'
    47        cross-examination.
    48
    49   MR. RAMPTON:  It is simply this, that if things are not read as
    50        a whole, then I do have to come back to it in 
    51        re-examination. 
    52 
    53   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The normal form, as you know, is just to say
    54        perfectly equably:  "Will you, please, read that?"
    55
    56   MR. RAMPTON:  But I have been doing that since the case began.
    57
    58   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Carry on doing it now.  What is the next
    59        reference you want, Ms. Steel?
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