Day 095 - 02 Mar 95 - Page 65


     
     1   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Well, this is comment.
     2
     3   MR. RAMPTON:  It is comment, my Lord, yes.
     4
     5   MR. MORRIS:  I can think of interpretations but it would be
     6        comment.
     7
     8   MR. RAMPTON:  Well, that may be so.  I just want to check there
     9        is nothing else.  Yes, there is one other thing.  My Lord
    10        I know will think it a banal, rather foolish question, you
    11        probably will as well, but it is important in the context
    12        of this case that I ask it.  It is this.  Supposing it were
    13        the case that for the sake of a fast buck McDonald's,
    14        Tysons, Equity, whoever else, were processing and selling
    15        to the public large quantities of contaminated meat with
    16        the result that the health of the people of the world was
    17        habitually put in danger and many people became sick and
    18        died.  Suppose that were so?
    19        A.  Yes.
    20
    21   Q.   What do you suppose would happen to the profits of those
    22        companies?
    23        A.  Obviously there will not be even a company, much less a
    24        profit.  We would not exist if that was the case,
    25        especially in the United States with the laws and
    26        regulations are there so they can sue a company for a
    27        simple thing and get millions of dollars in damages.  We
    28        would not exist as a company.
    29
    30   Q.   Have you ever in the whole of your ----
    31
    32   MR. MORRIS:  I was stopped from asking that line of
    33        questioning.  That was the exact point I was questioning,
    34        do you remember, and I was not allowed to put those kinds
    35        of questions earlier on today.  It was exactly the
    36        questions I was going to put about the industry as a whole
    37        and the company in particular, and whether you could draw
    38        any conclusions from the line of questioning Mr. Rampton
    39        put up just now.
    40
    41   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  There we are.  It is the sort of thing which,
    42        if it is important, I can form my own judgment on one way
    43        or the other.
    44
    45   MR. RAMPTON:  Thank you very much, Dr. Gomez Gonzalez.  My Lord
    46        may be he released?
    47
    48   MR. MORRIS:  Before he is released asked can I ask a question
    49        about the map which we did not raise in cross-examination?
    50        Mr. Rampton brought it up in re-examination, if you 
    51        remember and we did not have the map. 
    52 
    53   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Ask you your question now.
    54
    55               Further Cross-Examined by the Defendants
    56
    57   MR. MORRIS:  Have you still got a copy of the map?
    58
    59   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yellow XI tab 5?
    60        A.  Yes.

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