Day 079 - 27 Jan 95 - Page 51
1 MR. MORRIS: In your statement on page -----
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3 MR. RAMPTON: Wait a minute. I am sorry, Mr. Morris, I do not
4 mean to be impolite. It may be that I am speaking out of
5 turn. Would your Lordship mind making an enquiry of
6 Mr. Walker? I thought I had the right information -- I may
7 not have -- about his availability on Monday.
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9 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is a question of when you could come back
10 to court if your cross-examination and any re-examination
11 are not completed this afternoon. Mr. Rampton volunteered
12 you for Monday and now thinks that may have been unwise.
13 What is the situation?
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15 THE WITNESS: The situation is, my Lord, that I am booked to go
16 to Germany for a meeting on Monday.
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18 Q. What about the rest of next week?
19 A. No, I am going to qualify that by saying, sir, if you
20 want me back here on Monday, I will come back here on
21 Monday. I do not want to come back but I will come back.
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The position is this: There is no absolute
24 need for to you come back on Monday morning but there is an
25 inherent sense, as you can imagine, in finishing a witness
26 if one can do so.
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28 THE WITNESS: I will come back on Monday, my Lord.
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30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Thank you very much.
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32 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I wonder -- again I ask it through your
33 Lordship -- whether Mr. Walker would like five minutes just
34 to make a telephone call to confirm that arrangement or not
35 or whether it can be done after court?
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What do you say about that? If we carried on
38 now and if Ms. Steel and Mr. Morris could not finish asking
39 you questions anyway, we would probably knock off at 10
40 past four, something like that.
41 A. My Lord, that will be all right as long as I can
42 telephone my office before close of business today and that
43 gives me the opportunity.
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45 Q. Yes, thank you.
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47 MR. MORRIS (To the witness): In your statement on point 5 you
48 said -----
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think that means paragraph (5).
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52 MR. MORRIS: Sorry, paragraph 5. You have your statement in
53 front of you. It says all: "All cattle for the meat that
54 goes into McDonald's hamburgers are reared in Ireland,
55 Scotland and England, and very occasionally the company
56 purchases meat from cattle reared in France, Germany and
57 Denmark"; is that correct?
58 A. Yes.
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60 Q. That is still the case now, yes?
