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1 MR. RAMPTON: They are also in the pink publication bundles.
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3 MS. STEEL: Did you say it was in the pink publication
4 bundles?
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6 MR. RAMPTON: Yes -- pink publication numbers are pink 1A, 68,
7 65 and 86. I give them in that order, because that is
8 their chronological orders.
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think it is appendix 2, is it not?
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12 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, my Lord, it is.
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14 MS. STEEL: I cannot find the solicitors letter up there.
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16 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. I keep saying you can apply to reply on
17 the counterclaim, and I will say "yea" or "nay", but I am
18 obviously going to let you respond on questions relating to
19 the counterclaim. So if you want to say anything about
20 this, you can do then.
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22 MS. STEEL: OK. Thank you.
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24 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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26 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, the first document, though is not dated
27 in this document, is in fact October 1990. That we get
28 from pink 1A. Mrs. Brinley-Codd's has the date on the
29 top: 16.10.90. I think it was part of the 1990 demo
30 outside the Headquarters.
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32 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Is this 68 now? You said 68, 65 and 66.
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34 MR. RAMPTON: If your Lordship is in pink 1A -----
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36 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is 16.10.90.
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38 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, 16.10.90. This is the least important of
39 these documents, for two reasons: first, because at that
40 time there were five defendants, including of course these
41 two; but, also, it is not anything like as venomous in its
42 tone as the others. It does, however, in its first
43 paragraph, repeat -- at any rate in summary -- some of the
44 allegations in the leaflet complained of. But
45 your Lordship will notice the substance of the response, in
46 bold capitals with exclamation marks, at the bottom of the
47 page.
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49 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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51 MR. RAMPTON: So, that is Defendants' response number 1. The
52 next document, my Lord, is the same month, and of 1990, and
53 that is pink 1A, 65. Mine also has at the top, 10.90, and
54 its heading is "McDonald's gets McNasty".
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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58 MR. RAMPTON: The important paragraph is, well, the first
59 important paragraph is the third paragraph: "So worried are
60 the McGarbage food producers that they have infiltrated the
