Day 247 - 10 May 96 - Page 61


     
     1        was, and that is entirely a matter for me.
     2
     3   MS. STEEL:   It is correct, is it not, that by your own analysis
     4        48 per cent of the quarter-pounder is water or moisture?
     5        A.  It is whatever naturally occurs.  There is no added
     6        water.
     7
     8   Q.   That is correct is it not?
     9        A.  I am not a scientist.  Whatever part of a
    10        quarter-pounder is water is what naturally occurs in the
    11        ingredients, there is no added water.
    12
    13   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  There is no point in putting it, if you have
    14        evidence of it there is no point in putting it to the
    15        witness.
    16
    17   MS. STEEL:   It is from one of their own documents.
    18
    19   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Maybe it is.  It does not surprise me.
    20        I think 90 per cent of the potato and I think 70 per cent
    21        of the human body is.
    22
    23   MS. STEEL:   Well, it is Mr. Rampton who decided to put it to
    24        the witness.
    25
    26   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is a question of whether, granted it may
    27        be right, the point you and Mr. Rampton will address me on
    28        is whether, in its setting, it is meant to intimate more
    29        than that.  One way or the other I have to make up my mind
    30        about that.
    31
    32   MS. STEEL:   If I could explain what the situation is.  The
    33        situation is that I am trying to go through all the bits
    34        which are not related to publication.  I have some more
    35        questions on publication, and then following the service of
    36        Mr. Nicholson's supplementary statement there are some
    37        additional questions that I want to ask in respect of
    38        that.  Basically, I am just trying to clear up all the
    39        things that are not publication at the moment.
    40
    41   MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I suggest you do is to do that and we
    42        will take stock as to time.  If Mr. Preston has to come
    43        back on Monday he has to come back on Monday, but keep
    44        going with your loose ends and then you may have a clearer
    45        idea of how much time you think you need to do with any
    46        publication and matters arising out of Mr. Nicholson's
    47        additional statement, which you have just seen, and we can
    48        talk about that.
    49
    50   MS. STEEL:   Right. 
    51 
    52   MR. JUSTICE BELL: At least, even if Mr. Preston has to come back 
    53        on Monday morning we may have a picture of how long he will
    54        be here for.
    55
    56   MS. STEEL:   Can I ask about the Bournemouth Advertiser
    57        incident?  When Mr. Morris raised this the other day you
    58        said that we had already dealt with it, but when I looked
    59        through the previous time that Mr. Preston was in the
    60        witness box as far as I can see it was raised by

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