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1 activities, and I think it is the local store marketing
2 magazine, which did not actually get put in the bundles of
3 documents that are in court, although it was disclosed by
4 the Plaintiffs.
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6 MR. MORRIS: Well, it is not a hundred percent as I quoted it.
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do not get held up by it now. What I suggest
9 is if one of you refers to a document or a statement in the
10 evidence which you cannot find, do not hold yourself up by
11 looking for it. Make sure that the other of you, that is
12 the one who is not addressing me, or one of your helpers
13 behind, makes a note of it, and at some stage, preferably
14 before the end of this term but even later rather than
15 never, make sure it gets to me.
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17 I mean, I do not want to encourage you to be sending me
18 letters next term saying "the document I referred to on 1st
19 November was such and such", but I would rather you did it
20 at some later stage than hold yourself up. I have taken a
21 minute or two to say that, although I have said it before,
22 because it is important to keep going.
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24 MR. MORRIS: Right. If I can say, on page 53, day 6, and I am
25 quoting from a document called "McDonald's Working Towards
26 a Tidy Britain?" I think this is in a wider document, but
27 from McDonald's: It is strange that when one questions the
28 public about their impression of McDonald's, the
29 cleanliness of our restaurant is renowned, yet we are
30 attacked by the same public on the basis of our environment/index.html">litter in
31 the streets. As long as littering of our streets is
32 prevalent in the UK, McDonald's stand to be attacked as a
33 major contributor to this social disease. These is direct
34 quotes, all these. Quote, when one considers that
35 McDonald's each day is serving food and drink to
36 approximately three-quarters of a million people in the UK
37 - it is now double that, I think - it does not take a
38 genius to conclude that our packaging will be prevalent on
39 the streets whilst littering continues. It went on to say
40 it is unfair to blame McDonald's.
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is all part of the document rather than
43 Mr. Preston speaking?
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45 MR. MORRIS: No, that is the document being quoted that is a
46 McDonald's document. And then me or Helen asked him: "Do
47 you agree with that statement". Answer: I agree with what
48 it says, but again do not take it out of context. Take the
49 next paragraph, which goes on to say it is unfair to blame
50 McDonald's for this. But it is a recognition that
51 McDonald's packaging is prevalent on the streets and that
52 they are inevitably going, quote, to be attacked as a major
53 contributor to this social disease.
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55 So I don't know why they are suing us over this because it
56 is something so obviously common sense.
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58 MR. RAMPTON: I should at this stage, before Mr. Morris gets
59 too far locked into environment/index.html">litter, I should make this observation;
60 that there is in fact no specific complaint in the
