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1 these are their words and this is their report.
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3 Q. How did you take it out of the report?
4 A. They gave us this and they gave us some backup detail,
5 with all the wages and what have you. This was their
6 summary, their written summary of what they had done and
7 how they did it. We did not have editorial privileges
8 whatsoever. They wrote this thing. We did not write this
9 thing.
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11 MS. STEEL: I might be mistaken, but I am pretty certain that
12 the witness actually said earlier that this was compiled by
13 McDonald's.
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15 THE WITNESS: What I was saying, these are what I call
16 extracts, and I apologise. What I am saying is this is
17 part of theirs -- there is all the detail underneath it.
18 We extracted or we took this part, the summary, from the
19 entire thing that had the backup detail. But there is no
20 mistake about it: this is theirs and their writing, and not
21 ours.
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23 As a matter of fact, if I recall, my Lord, when I was asked
24 the other day about the charts and I said these were --
25 there was a question about were these TPF & C charts or
26 McDonald's charts, and when I was asked that question
27 directly, I said that these are TPF & C charts.
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29 MR. RAMPTON: I think the confusion probably came from the
30 question. I will just give your Lordship the reference, if
31 I may. The question I asked -----
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I suggest is, by all means, ask any more
34 that you have in mind to ask this evening. If, overnight,
35 you check the transcript or Caseview record of what
36 Mr. Stein previously said, and if you wish to put to him
37 that what he said in the past is inconsistent with what
38 Mr. Stein has just said, then do so. But I suggest you
39 check it first, so that you will not just depending on your
40 recollection. What I suggest you do is -- Mr. Morris said
41 there are only a few more questions to ask about this --
42 you finish that and then come back to it some time
43 tomorrow, when we have checked Caseview or the transcript.
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45 MR. MORRIS: (To the witness) You are saying now that these
46 physical pages were part of the TPF & C report?
47 A. This is their work, not McDonald's work.
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49 Q. TPF & C?
50 A. That is correct.
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52 Q. This is part of the report?
53 A. That is correct.
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55 Q. This was given to you in a lump and you just took certain
56 pages to read?
57 A. No. I took the top pages, which was their executive
58 summary. Exactly as it is worded here is what I took.
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60 Q. The second paragraph, first sentence, it says:
