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     1        what it is.
     2
     3   MR. MORRIS:  That is what it is.
     4
     5   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  In fact, I will not shut my mind to anything
     6        you have to say but, at the moment, I do not anticipate
     7        being the least bit interested in whether McDonald's could
     8        have brought the action in the United States or not.  The
     9        fact is there is a valid action in this country which
    10        I have been called upon to adjudicate upon, and that I will
    11        do.
    12
    13        So, on the one hand, do not be concerned that Mr. Beavers
    14        may have said they could have brought it in the United
    15        States.  What I will do, as a matter of interest (if no
    16        more), I will read that letter but, at the moment, among
    17        all the real issues in this case, that was not one which it
    18        seemed to me was relevant to decide at all.
    19
    20   MR. MORRIS:  OK.
    21
    22   MS. STEEL:   I went to the Plaintiffs' solicitors' offices
    23        yesterday to look at the Operations and Trainings Manual,
    24        and I marked up the pages which I felt were relevant and
    25        that we wanted copies of, and actually I did not have time
    26        to go through the whole of it.  I might have to go back
    27        again.  But there were some which I thought were possibly
    28        relevant to Mr. Fairgrieve and I asked that they be
    29        provided.  I actually asked if they could provide them
    30        yesterday, and I spoke to Mr. Hill and he said they could
    31        not do them yesterday but they were trying to sort them out
    32        for today to bring them to court, before court ended
    33        today.  I did say I thought that would probably be before
    34        lunch.
    35
    36        Now, I have just asked Mrs. Brinley-Codd and she did not
    37        know anything about it, but ....
    38
    39   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  How many pages were there altogether, can you
    40        remember?
    41
    42   MS. STEEL:  The ones that I actually asked for today were, there
    43        were 50 in total.
    44
    45   MR. RAMPTON:  May Mrs. Brinley-Codd just find out?  If they are,
    46        I was going to suggest that Ms. Steel goes home via Barlows
    47        and picks them up.
    48
    49   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  She is going to see counsel this afternoon.
    50        I would have thought something could be fixed up. 
    51 
    52   MR. MORRIS:  Especially as the Plaintiffs are under orders to 
    53        disclose relevant material----
    54
    55   MR. RAMPTON:  No, Mr. Morris must not keep saying that,
    56        my Lord.  It really is terribly annoying.  Our obligation
    57        is to make discovery and to give inspection and to make,
    58        talking about strict obligations which Mr. Morris appears
    59        to think that he is, and to make such copies of such parts
    60        of a relevant document that has been inspected that the

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