Day 292 - 01 Nov 96 - Page 25


     
     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.
     5
     6   MR. MORRIS:   Well, it is not a hundred percent as I quoted it.
     7
     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.
    16
    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.
    23
    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.
    41
    42   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That is all part of the document rather than
    43        Mr. Preston speaking?
    44
    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.
    54
    55        So I don't know why they are suing us over this because it
    56        is something so obviously common sense.
    57
    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

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