Day 150 - 07 Jul 95 - Page 81


     
     1        resume at 10.30 on Monday morning.  Do not talk to anyone
     2        else about your evidence.
     3
     4   THE WITNESS:  OK.
     5
     6                            (The witness withdrew).
     7
     8   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
     9
    10   MR. ATKINSON:  Perhaps, my Lord, while the Defendants are
    11        talking amongst themselves, I have two things which I need
    12        to tell your Lordship.  The first comes from yesterday
    13        apparently when I was not here, but your Lordship asked
    14        about where the US beef suppliers list and the letter from
    15        Van Gallein to Mr. Stein, where they should go.
    16
    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    18
    19   MR. ATKINSON:   The answer it that is the US beef suppliers list
    20        should go in pink volume 16 tab 19.
    21
    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    23
    24   MR. ATKINSON:  It is a new tab apparently.  Then the letter from
    25        Van Galleon to Mr. Stein, that should go in yellow volume X
    26        tab 4 at the back behind Mr. Stein's first statement.
    27        There is one further point if I could just say something on
    28        cross-examination length.  I am not trying to put any
    29        pressure or nag or say anything about that at all.  I just
    30        say that Mr. Rampton's understanding was that he was going
    31        to start on Tuesday with Mr. Davies.  I am only concerned
    32        to have some notice if we are going to go beyond Monday
    33        with Mr. Stanton.
    34
    35   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let us pursue that now.  You have done some
    36        enquiry this afternoon of Mr. Stanton about what is the
    37        normal practice and how things generally happen in
    38        McDonald's stores.  I have no criticism of that at all
    39        because Mr. Stanton, quite apart from anything he has to
    40        say about what specifically happened at Colchester, has
    41        been in a large number of jobs going up the operational
    42        hierarchy with McDonald's, so he obviously has some
    43        experience of what goes on in the field.  What I would like
    44        you to do in so far as you are going to ask further
    45        questions about that for general information purposes,
    46        I would like you to try to get through that fairly quickly
    47        in the sense of just put your questions very directly.
    48
    49        When you come to areas where you think Mr. Stanton's
    50        evidence may conflict or clearly does conflict with what 
    51        you expect one of your witnesses to say, then obviously you 
    52        may want to approach it in a less direct way.  I would 
    53        invite you to get to the actual challenge or testing of the
    54        evidence which you dispute with him as directly as
    55        possible.  I say that now in relation to Mr. Stanton
    56        because we are going to have a number of witnesses, both of
    57        McDonald's called on behalf of McDonald's and called by
    58        you, where we could very easily get bogged down in minute
    59        detail which will swamp us all before the end of the case
    60        unless we make our points quite sharply and so they can

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