Day 269 - 25 Jun 96 - Page 29


     
     1        products and salt and low in fibre?
     2        A.   Yes, it is difficult to interpret this, with respect,
     3        literally.  I think that -- I mean, if you are saying that
     4        McDonald's food is very unhealthy because it is high in fat
     5        and certainly low in fibre, these are the two points on
     6        which I am giving evidence, I would agree that that is true
     7        and I would agree that diets that are high in fat and low
     8        in fibre are the diets that constitute a real risk to heart
     9        disease and to, certainly as far as the evidence goes,
    10        cancer of the colon which is the one where the evidence is
    11        hardest.
    12
    13   Q.   Well, you could comment on the last part if you want, but I
    14        do not know whether that particularly....  Did you want to
    15        say anything else?
    16
    17   MR. RAMPTON:  I not sure he can say anything else.  It is your
    18        Lordship's province, it seems to me.
    19
    20   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    21        A.  I do not think I would want to say anything about the
    22        last sentence.
    23
    24   MS. STEEL:  No further questions.
    25
    26   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, thank you.
    27
    28               Cross-examined (continued) by MR. RAMPTON
    29
    30   Q.   Professor Crawford, you will forgive me, I hope, if in
    31        continuing my cross-examination I confine myself to your
    32        most recent work, since it is a good deal more detailed
    33        than the original one.  Do you agree?
    34        A.   Yes, I am very happy with that.
    35
    36   Q.   In a sense an amplification, is it not, for the most part?
    37        A.   For the most part, yes.
    38
    39   MS. STEEL:  I am not sure I am happy about that because Mr.
    40        Rampton was supposed to be cross-examining Mr. Crawford
    41        even whether or not we got a new statement, and if he is
    42        going to challenge what was said on the previous occasion
    43        when he is giving his summing-up, you did say to him that
    44        he was supposed to challenge it, put it to Professor
    45        Crawford because he may have some relevant clarification or
    46        whatever to make in terms of any criticism that Mr. Rampton
    47        may make.  So I am not really sure that that is proper
    48        course.
    49
    50   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Well, I think it is up to Mr. Rampton how he
    51        conducts his cross-examination.  I expressed my view on the
    52        previous occasion.  Having expressed the view that I would
    53        be reluctant to listen to Mr. Rampton's own construction of
    54        articles when he had not tried it out on a witness, the
    55        most obvious one being Professor Crawford, that so far as
    56        your case is concerned and where I have not already had
    57        evidence on particular articles, I propose to adhere to
    58        that.
    59
    60        It is up to Mr. Rampton which of the articles, if any, he

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