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     1        general public, any members of the general public, visit
              McDonald's seven times a week, then she must identify it
     2        so the witness can deal with it.
 
     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just pause a moment.  What I would like to
              be clear about is whether you are suggesting there is
     4        evidence in the case that those other than those who are
              employed at McDonald's eat as much as one McDonald's meal
     5        every day, whether there is any evidence -----
 
     6   MS. STEEL:   Yes, there is.
 
     7   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  --- as to how many, if any, people do.
 
     8   MS. STEEL:   Yes, there is, but at the moment I am not dealing
              with that.  I think Mr. Rampton is wrong.  There is
     9        nothing in our pleadings which says that we are only
              concerned about the health customers; we are not bothered
    10        about their employees.
 
    11   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I am not concerned with the pleadings at the
              moment.  Your question, if it was recorded correctly, was:
    12        If it was shown that people were, which I believe it is,
              eating a McDonald's meal every day, do you think that is a
    13        wise move?  I have your points and figures about
              McDonald's employers, but what I want to know is if it is
    14        implicit in that question that there is evidence that a
              significant number of people, other than McDonald's
    15        employees, eat McDonald's meals every day.
 
    16   MS. STEEL:   Well, at the moment I am just asking the question
              that you read out.
    17
         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is just a hypothetical question?
    18
         MS. STEEL:   I am concerned about employees as well.  I mean,
    19        people including employees as well.
 
    20   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I appreciate that.  I am not discarding
              that, but what I want to know is it just a hypothetical
    21        question or are we going to have evidence that -- I have
              your employees point and we know there are 31,000 of
    22        those.
 
    23   MR. RAMPTON:  That is right, my Lord.
 
    24   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I want to know is whether there is any
              evidence in the case that a significant number of people
    25        in this country, apart from those 31,000 people, eat as
              much as one McDonald's meal a day. 
    26 
         MS. STEEL:   I am going to come on that.  With respect, I am 
    27        going to come on to that, but at the moment I am just
              asking -- it is not a hypothetical question because we
    28        already know that the employees do.
 
    29   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Are you restricting it to the employees for
              the moment?
    30
         MS. STEEL:   I do not understand why it makes any difference.

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