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1 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can I just explain one thing? You have done
it before. It is not up to the witness whether he or she
2 can get it or is prepared to get it or not get it. If
there is a document which you think you ought to have and
3 those who represent the plaintiffs are not willing
voluntarily to give it to you if it is available, you have
4 to ask me -----
5 MS. STEEL: OK.
6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: --- whether to order it or not.
7 MS. STEEL: Can we apply for that then, please?
8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think you should carry on with your
cross-examination and put that on your note of things we
9 have to clear up, because you do not have to argue
everything thing with the actual witness, if you see what
10 I mean.
11 MR. MORRIS: No, I understand. It is just because of
administrative problems it is easy for us to forget
12 something.
13 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is why I was going to say, if I have
not got that far, make yourself a check list of the things
14 you want to raise, then we can do it all in one go and
I can give a ruling. There is no harm in you saying out
15 loud in court: We would look to see that if in due course
you are prepared to order that we do. Then that focuses
16 the plaintiffs' mind on whether indeed it exists and if it
is available and what their attitude to disclosure is.
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MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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MS. STEEL: Having had this, having had the rest of the
19 questions in this survey drawn to your attention and being
concerned with promoting good nutrition as you said, would
20 it concern you enough now to find out about these things
or does it not worry you?
21 A. Well, I think if you look at the report that I made
and if you also look on page 200, clearly there is an
22 issue here that is of some concern in the sense that there
is a proportion of staff, and I think you must remember
23 that many of these are young men in their late teens or
early 20's, on the right-hand side you will see that the
24 consumption of alcohol and those who take exercise zero
times a week which is on the left-hand side, that is 14
25 per cent, so there is about 4 per cent who are smoking
more than 20 cigarettes a day, and again going back to the
26 alcohol, 16 per cent are taking 20 units or more. Some of
them, if I recall correctly, took a lot more than 20 units
27 per week. So clearly there is an element in the
McDonald's staff who really do not take healthy eating or
28 anything else very seriously at all.
29 I suspect that if you were to look at any cohort like this
that you might well find the same kind of thing emerge.
30 So, I think the question is from the point of view
McDonald's is how far do they see that, how far do they
