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1 customer leaflet which you saw a draft of?
2 A. I would take that as granted, yes, my Lord.
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4 MR. MORRIS: Right. If we look at page -- just to confuse
5 matters more, actually you will not have it, between pages
6 18 and 19, page 18?
7 A. Yes.
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9 Q. Those present and those who received details were blanked
10 out by the Plaintiffs in this case, but we now know from a
11 recently disclosed copy of that page that the distribution
12 of what happened on 11th April 1994 included you. It says:
13 Distribution: Those present and Sid Nicholson, Martin
14 Campiche, Patti Brinley-Codd and James Maxwell. So you
15 were being kept informed, were you, of this series of
16 meetings even if you were not present at the meetings?
17 A. Not all of them.
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19 Q. Some of them?
20 A. A lot of these media people meet very, very regularly,
21 I would not get reports of those meetings. If I got a
22 copy, it was probably that they made a decision. Maybe it
23 was the one on which they sent out the final version, I do
24 not know.
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26 Q. Those present, according to that document we have now been
27 give, which we can call 18 and a half, were Mike Love,
28 Eddie Bensilum, Robert Hill Richard Alwinkle and Robert
29 Laniun. Do you know who Robert Laniun was?
30 A. No.
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32 Q. But, in any case, 3 of these 5 were McDonald's or their
33 legal representatives?
34 A. Mike Love ----
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36 Q. The majority, again, were not public relations.
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Where are we going at the moment?
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40 MR. MORRIS: I am trying to establish that from all the
41 information we have got, the majority of people at these
42 meetings were McDonald's people or their legal
43 representatives.
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45 MR. JUSTICE BELL: But where do we go from there?
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47 MR. MORRIS: Because they had to take full responsibility for
48 what was discussed.
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I have not heard a word to suggest that
51 McDonald's do not accept that they were responsible for
52 these meetings.
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54 MR. RAMPTON: That would be so even if only the publicity people
55 were there, even if it was only the agent, Scope, they are
56 agents, and if they produce something on McDonald's
57 behalf ----
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59 MR. JUSTICE BELL: But I thought it was common ground. These
60 were put out on behalf of McDonald's, they pleaded the
