Day 081 - 31 Jan 95 - Page 46
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2 MS. STEEL: In fact, I did hand a copy to the Judge.
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4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Is that the ones produced in court?
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6 MS. STEEL: Yes.
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8 MR. RAMPTON: Yes. Your Lordship should have the documents but
9 probably has not the proper file because I have one which
10 is called bundle V and it is headed "Judge" so perhaps if I
11 pass that up?
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13 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is the one starting off: "List of
14 Documents served 18th January 1995"?
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16 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, that is right.
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I will undo all Mr. Stiles' good work and put
19 it in the .....
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21 MR. RAMPTON: I would only say this: I know enough about this
22 file of documents to know that the vast majority of them
23 are inadmissible -- not all but most. I do, therefore,
24 utter a word of caution at this stage before Mr. Morris
25 starts reading them out, according to the principle
26 enunciated by your Lordship the other day.
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28 MR. MORRIS (To the witness): When you did your expert visits to
29 Sun Valley or, indeed, any other place but specifically Sun
30 Valley, did you ask about incidents of food poisoning which
31 McDonald's customers had suffered? Did you ask them if
32 they kept records?
33 A. No.
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35 Q. If they took the decisions of local authorities or
36 Magistrates Courts seriously or anything like that?
37 A. No.
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39 Q. You did not ask to get access to any documents with those
40 kinds of records?
41 A. No.
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43 Q. If you go to the fourth document, the fourth sheet, it is
44 actually the fourth sheet in document 1, can you just read
45 that?
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We had better make sure we just identify it
48 in some way by a number or a date or something.
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50 MR. MORRIS: It is 6th August 1990 Magistrates ruling on
51 salmonella food poisoning incident at McDonald's.
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53 MR. RAMPTON: No, my Lord. It is not that at all, with the
54 greatest possible respect.
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Anyway, it is a return of legal
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59 MR. MORRIS: He said it is nothing to do with that; it is the
60 one I am looking at anyway.
