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     1   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   I do not think we can because I have heard
     2        it you see.
     3
     4   MS. STEEL:     We have heard other things in this case which
     5        have then been, just been completely irrelevant.  The
     6        problem is if we are going to go down the road of
     7        discussing McDonald's food, then it certainly will take
     8        considerable length of time.  I will want to ask a lot of
     9        questions about it which I deliberately left out.
    10
    11   MR. RAMPTON:  I am afraid to say I cannot control that.  If the
    12        defendant's introduce an attack upon McDonald's food by the
    13        back door in cross-examination through my witness who was
    14        not allowed to speak about nutritional value of McDonald's
    15        food in-Chief, then I am afraid I have to deal with it.
    16
    17   MS. STEEL:     Well, McDonald's food was not mentioned it was a
    18        generalised thing about diet in general.
    19
    20   MR. MORRIS:  And achievablity of targets is what we have been
    21        talking about.
    22
    23   MR. JUSTICE BELL: Well, I did think the question that Mr.
    24        Rampton has isolated did bring it in because the inference
    25        was that McDonald's, who is the equivalent of the western
    26        diet which you are highlighting there.  There would not be
    27        any other purpose.
    28
    29   MR. MORRIS:  I did not say that at all.  That was not the reason
    30        for question.  The question was whether the food industry
    31        contributes to meeting the targets which are being set as
    32        healthy guidelines or whether they are, you know, not
    33        accountable or whatever and it was not a reference to
    34        McDonald's food at all.  In fact, in the whole-----
    35
    36   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   What was the point in bringing it in?
    37
    38   MR. MORRIS:  Because Professor Naismith has worked with the food
    39        industry.
    40
    41   MR. RAMPTON:  What has that got to do with it?
    42
    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Mr. Rampton, you must let -- if I ask
    44        Mr. Morris I do not want your six-penneth in the middle.
    45
    46   MR. RAMPTON:  I was actually on my feet when Mr. Morris started
    47        speaking.
    48
    49   MR. JUSTICE BELL: But I actually asked him a question.
    50 
    51   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, I am sorry my Lord. 
    52 
    53   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Well, I am going to adjourn now.  In the
    54        morning I would like you Mr. Rampton, to canvas the parts
    55        of the evidence which you consider enable you to bring in
    56        if, in fact, you want to raise them in re-examination,
    57        the-- I want you to tell me what the parts in
    58        cross-examination are which you say entitle you, not only
    59        entitle you to reopen or open matters which you did not
    60        adduce in evidence in-Chief, but make you wish to do so

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