Day 143 - 27 Jun 95 - Page 34
1 course so far, Mr. Morris.
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3 MR. RAMPTON: I do not want chunks of these inadmissible
4 documents read out for the record.
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6 MR. MORRIS: We have two witnesses from the Transport and
7 General Workers Union which is the largest union in Britain
8 ---
9 A. Yes.
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11 Q. -- giving evidence for the Defence.
12 A. OK.
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14 Q. This statement here, the first statement -----
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16 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What are you looking at, first of all?
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18 MR. MORRIS: The first page is a statement for the purposes of a
19 court case when McDonald's took legal action against the
20 distributors of the London Greenpeace Fact Sheet in 1988,
21 I think it was, and the National Officer of the Transport
22 and General Workers Union ------
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24 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I am sorry, but this is exactly what
25 I find objectionable.
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause. Mr. Morris, you must follow the
28 normal procedure. If and when you call your witnesses the
29 situation may change, but follow the procedure you did
30 before. For instance, you can ask Mr. Stein to read the
31 document if you want.
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33 Can I give you an example? I do not know whether it is
34 what you have in mind or not, but just by way of example:
35 You could ask Mr. Stein: "Do you agree that McDonald's",
36 and we are in the UK now, "is a very difficult Company to
37 organise because of the highly mobile young workforce
38 combined with a very anti-union attitude of the Company?"
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40 You can ask that question. You can have the document in
41 front in case, as you say (though I do not always agree it
42 is so), you think black and white adds something to the
43 matter, but that is the way to do it. When you are calling
44 your own witnesses in due course, a different situation may
45 prevail.
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47 MR. MORRIS: Yes. (To the witness): Would it concern you if a
48 National Officer of the largest trade union ------
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50 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, no.
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52 MR. MORRIS: I am asking a question, "if".
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54 MR. RAMPTON: No, my Lord, I am sorry, I object to the question.
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56 MR. MORRIS: What are you frightened of?
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Mr. Morris, you have behaved perfectly well
59 throughout this -----
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