Day 124 - 10 May 95 - Page 59
1 Carry on for a few more minutes with other questions of
2 Mr. Beavers.
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4 MR. MORRIS: Right. (To the witness): Just one thing related
5 to that: Would you not expect to hear about a controversy
6 such as that if it was reaching national daily papers in,
7 for example, the UK, as I think we have disclosed an
8 article in the Daily Mirror about it, which was at that
9 time probably the second largest selling daily paper in
10 Britain, would you expect to hear about that?
11 A. I would say some of the officials in McDonald's might
12 hear about it, certainly, our International President would
13 hear about it, our Communications Department and maybe that
14 information would be passed on to us, but I do not think
15 you could draw the conclusion that just because it had made
16 national headlines that we would hear about it. The fact
17 it made national headlines in New Zealand or here does not
18 necessarily mean that all members of management, you know,
19 will get the report.
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21 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What is your prognosis now between you and
22 Ms. Steel together?
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24 MR. MORRIS: Our feeling is that we are definitely going to
25 finish tomorrow in time for Mr. Rampton to make -----
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you want to break off now then? If you
28 think there is any risk of not doing so and another quarter
29 of an hour or so or 20 minutes will make any difference,
30 sit down, collect your thoughts and we will carry on, but
31 if you are absolutely confident -----
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33 MR. MORRIS: We had saved some stuff for tomorrow which I have
34 not got all the papers for so ......
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36 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you want to break off now?
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38 MR. MORRIS: I think it might be appropriate. It might be
39 helpful if Mr. Rampton thinks that we are going on a long
40 time tomorrow to indicate how long it is likely to take him
41 or when he would like us to finish to be sure he gets his
42 re-examination done.
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44 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, at the moment I have only one question in
45 re-examination.
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Assume that quarter of an hour will do for
48 Mr. Rampton unless he indicates to the contrary.
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50 MR. MORRIS: Yes, OK.
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: 10.30 tomorrow.
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