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1 found with more information on it which Mr. Rampton found.
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, there is that one there.
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5 MR. MORRIS: We do not know, though, if there was more
6 information on the version that has been found about the
7 other matters as well. So, for the sake of any confusion,
8 if we can have the full versions of both documents.
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Correct me if I am wrong, I thought that was
11 the full version of that document which you are holding.
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13 MR. RAMPTON: It is, so far as I know.
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15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: And what you are getting now is the document
16 you have always had but without the blankings out?
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18 MR. RAMPTON: That is right.
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20 MS. STEEL: If this is just it on its own, it has no title on it
21 or anything like that. I find it hard to believe that Leo
22 Burnett just kept one sheet on its own.
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24 MR. RAMPTON: No, my Lord. I try to save time and I find, in
25 fact, that I waste more time by having to explain what is
26 perfectly obvious over and over again. What happened was
27 that Leo Burnett had this sheet (which is the last sheet of
28 the second memorandum, I think it is January 1987) which
29 was the schedule of publication. We have not had it before
30 because the documents we got came from McDonald's legal
31 department and were not in this fuller form. We have now
32 got it from Leo Burnett. I have produced it now because
33 that is what we thought was a relevant document by reason
34 of the footnotes at the bottom of the page.
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36 In order to draw, what shall I say, the Defendants away
37 from the repeated accusations that something has been
38 covered up which they ought to be allowed to see, I have
39 volunteered to show them the whole of both memorandums
40 without the bits which I had originally blanked out. They
41 will be able to see from that that there is no foundation
42 for their suspicion or, more particularly, for the
43 allegations which they repeatedly make in court. I hope
44 when they have seen the document they will stop making
45 those allegations.
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You look at the document without the blanked
48 out bits. If you have any further concern about it, raise
49 it with me then, but look at that first. We have enough
50 practical problems without worrying about ones which are to
51 some extent hypothetical.
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53 MR. MORRIS: Right, OK.
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55 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I cannot immediately call to mind where the
56 blanked out memorandum is. If someone at some stage can
57 write where it is on that sheet, then I will put this sheet
58 in next to it. Do you want to go on to D, advertising,
59 Mr. Morris?
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