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1 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not think we can because I have heard
2 it you see.
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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.
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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.
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17 MS. STEEL: Well, McDonald's food was not mentioned it was a
18 generalised thing about diet in general.
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20 MR. MORRIS: And achievablity of targets is what we have been
21 talking about.
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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.
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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-----
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36 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What was the point in bringing it in?
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38 MR. MORRIS: Because Professor Naismith has worked with the food
39 industry.
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41 MR. RAMPTON: What has that got to do with it?
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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.
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46 MR. RAMPTON: I was actually on my feet when Mr. Morris started
47 speaking.
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49 MR. JUSTICE BELL: But I actually asked him a question.
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51 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, I am sorry my Lord.
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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
