Day 143 - 27 Jun 95 - Page 49
1 risk that you will provoke the witness or give the witness
2 an opportunity to say something favourable to McDonald's.
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4 MR. MORRIS: I am sure he will do that as often as he can.
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6 MR. RAMPTON: I am a bit concerned about this. By all means,
7 let Mr. Morris ask Mr. Stein whether he knows anything
8 about the course of negotiations. Where that leads, I have
9 to say, I do not know because it is very likely going to be
10 hearsay evidence anyway; he was not involved himself. If
11 Mr. Morris were counsel, I would have objected three days
12 ago to the amount of hearsay that Mr. Morris has sought to
13 elicit from Mr. Stein.
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15 MR. MORRIS: Well -----
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17 MR. RAMPTON: No, my Lord, I am speaking. My Lord, this page in
18 this wretched document is a combination of factual
19 assertion of which Mr. Stein is unlikely to have any first
20 hand admissible knowledge, and what I can only call
21 political cant. Frankly, what the point is of Mr. Morris
22 asking Mr. Stein questions about this page, I cannot
23 imagine.
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25 MR. MORRIS: I was going to contrast it with the following page
26 where it has detail -----
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Look, if this was a McDonald's document,
29 I could see you might cross-examine the witness on it and
30 if there were inconsistencies, you could make something.
31 But all it is at the moment is a possible platform which
32 leads you to want to see if Mr. Stein can give information
33 which you think might be useful to your case. That is the
34 full extent at the moment. If you find that he does not
35 know anything about it, you really have to move on. So try
36 to follow that.
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38 MR. MORRIS: Yes. All right. I will ask the important
39 questions. (To the witness): If you look on page 9?
40 A. OK, I have it. Where do you want me to look?
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42 Q. If you just read the first paragraph in (a)?
43 A. In (a)? Are you talking about the section that is ---
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45 Q. Headed (a)?
46 A. -- (iii) "Personnel Policy"?
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, just pause a moment. No. The page
49 number Mr. Morris has is the number in the middle of the
50 page immediately above the print. It is not the facsimile
51 page number in the top corner.
52 A. I am sorry, my Lord, I was looking at that.
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I made the same mistake originally. Anyway,
55 it is 9 and there is A, B and C.
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57 MR. MORRIS: They have laid out there what they understand to be
58 the traditional or, in fact, the binding agreement that
59 existed in that industry which you characterised -----
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