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1 alleged.
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3 MR. RAMPTON: It must bear the vice alleged, and, to put it
4 another way, it must bear a substantial, if not -- and we
5 would say it also to be -- if not the dominant role in the
6 creation of the particular diet of -- and one has to add --
7 a substantial number of people. Otherwise, the whole thing
8 falls apart. If there is only a couple of people who eat
9 the food every day, it is really miles away from the
10 justification. That is a subsidiary consideration.
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12 MR. MORRIS: Can I just ask one question? I am a little bit
13 unsure what exactly is happening. You are saying some
14 things to Mr. Rampton, and he is agreeing. Is it that you
15 are putting to him what you are saying his case appears to
16 be?
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No. I am just sorting things out in my mind,
19 just as when I put things to you or Ms. Steel on occasions
20 it deteriorated into an argument, but I was not expressing
21 any view one way or another; I was going through an
22 exercise which helped me to see things more clearly.
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24 MR. MORRIS: You are saying some things like a question, which
25 could be seen as a statement of fact.
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, no, no.
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29 MR. MORRIS: So, nothing that has gone before you are saying
30 this is a fact, if some people have to eat a substantial
31 amount of their food -----
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That may be the conclusion I come to at the
34 end of the day, but I am not saying it is my conclusion
35 now; any more than when I put something to you or
36 Ms. Steel, I was saying -- on occasions I have expressed a
37 view, I have said that I just cannot accept that. It has
38 not happened very often, but I have said it from time to
39 time. But in so far as I have said to someone, "Can you
40 really say that", I am not indicating that I have reached a
41 certain view; it is my way of getting the argument out in
42 the open.
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44 MR. MORRIS: Because, obviously, our case is that some people's
45 diets have been affected.
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I understand that. At the end of the day,
48 I may conclude that the way I have expressed things either
49 to you or Mr. Rampton is my view at the end of the day.
50 But it is not what I am doing at the moment.
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52 Just pause a moment, please, Mr. Rampton. I will take the
53 five-minute break there, because that is what I wanted to
54 ask about your nutrition folder.
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56 MR. RAMPTON: May I ask what is next?
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Folder 2, food poisoning; then advertising,
59 and then animals.
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