Day 246 - 09 May 96 - Page 62


     
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     2   MR. RAMPTON:  No, the only allegation about deception which is a
     3        permissible issue this the case is in relation to the
     4        nutritional quality of the food, as your Lordship's meaning
     5        clearly dictates.
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     7   MR. JUSTICE BELL: Well, you have it in now.  It may be a million
     8        miles away from whether McDonald's generally present one
     9        face to the public while masking another behind, but...
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    11   MR. MORRIS:  I am struggling a bit because we have moved much
    12        faster.
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    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do not struggle.  Sit down and think where
    15        you are.  The other aspect is how much...  I would like you
    16        to talk to Ms. Steel for a moment.  I will not rise, but
    17        take your time to discuss it with her and give me some
    18        estimate of how much longer you expect cross-examination of
    19        Mr. Preston to be, allowing just a few minutes, possibly,
    20        in the morning to discuss the question of persons present
    21        at the Scope meetings and any further cross-examination
    22        which may arise if you are told who was there.
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    24        While it is still in my mind, Mr. Rampton, if they are
    25        going to be disclosed no doubt you will bring them, or
    26        someone will bring copies of the appropriate pages, but I
    27        would like them to be brought anyway in case there is an
    28        argument and in case I rule in favour of the Defendants and
    29        against you on that.  I am not suggesting that that will be
    30        my conclusion.  I do not know what I will decide, but I
    31        would like to go straight on with the case when I have made
    32        a decision.  So, I do not want any further argument on it
    33        but I would like to be able to carry on whichever way my
    34        decision goes.
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    36        (To witness) Can I ask a question -- something completely
    37        different?  When I sat down and read overnight the 3 pages
    38        of the 1995 annual report?
    39        A.  Yes sir.
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    41   Q.   It referred to satellite restaurants in the United States?
    42        A.  Yes.
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    44   Q.   What are they?  Are they restaurants in other business
    45        concerns like big stores; it was Guys' Hospital which made
    46        me think of it?
    47        A.  Well, Guys' Hospital would be a normal standard
    48        McDonald's restaurant; full menu, full facilities.  When
    49        they talk satellite, they normally mean reduced menu, very
    50        small, often times reliant, at least in part, for its 
    51        management, some of its staff on another very close-by 
    52        restaurant where they sort of run in tandem.  The one they 
    53        term satellite could not really stand totally on its own,
    54        it needs another nearby one, sir, to provide back up
    55        support, people, possibly supplies at times.
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    57   Q.   So.  They are distinguished, I see, from traditional
    58        restaurants?
    59        A.  Yes.
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