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.
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4 THE WITNESS: OK.
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6 (The witness withdrew).
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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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.
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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19 MR. ATKINSON: The answer it that is the US beef suppliers list
20 should go in pink volume 16 tab 19.
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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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.
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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.
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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
