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1 might fit the description that your Lordship gave. These
2 will be disclosed in due course, certainly during the
3 course of this week.
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5 The Costa Rica documents I have dealt with and also the
6 early United States beef specifications. By chance
7 Mr. Walker came up with two and we have already disclosed
8 one from what we think might be 1967. Germany and Gunther
9 Walraff which is one of the outstanding things. What
10 Brinley-Codd has done is to go through the transcript of
11 the hearing on day 70, as Mr. Morris was demanding that she
12 should and she has done it. This is the fruit of her
13 search. The Gunther Walraff papers, your Lordship will
14 remember that he was the subject of court proceedings by
15 McDonald's on the grounds of something similar to
16 defamation. I believe the other place Mr. Hill has been to
17 as well as Costa Rica is Germany. What he has discovered
18 is that we have disclosed the court order, the formal
19 judgment, but that there had been appended to it the actual
20 written judgment, in other words, what the judge says as
21 opposed to the order, which when Mr. Nicholson had made
22 enquiry previously the Germans had not understood was
23 required, partly I think because the lawyer who was
24 handling the case was an outside lawyer who died some time
25 ago. Anyhow, that is now in our possession in England and
26 will be disclosed in due course.
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28 Then, my Lord, on recycling and waste there were, and
29 I think it is page 725 of pink volume V, some documents
30 referred to as being in a McDonald's library. I do not
31 know whether in your Lordship remembers?
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do. Mr. Morris raised them. One included
34 the Swiss survey.
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36 MR. RAMPTON: Yes.
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: One was the Swiss survey, but the others
39 might have been relevant as well, although Mr. Morris was
40 only interested in about four of them.
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42 MR. RAMPTON: Yes. I think it was documents 1, 2, 5 and 11. In
43 fact, all those documents are not as we had originally
44 believed with McDonald's in this country. They are with
45 McDonald's in Europe. It is thought that the probable site
46 for them is Germany. So we are asking the Germans to
47 secure copies of those documents, if they still have them.
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49 Your Lordship will also remember that I think it was on
50 pages 22 to 23 of the transcript for that day, Mr. Van Erp
51 mentioned a UK report and review of packaging for 1990. We
52 have now been sent that. We were sent that I think last
53 week or maybe the week before. Its contents were reviewed
54 by Mrs. Brinley-Codd and Mr. Atkinson. Their joint view is
55 that it contains no relevant material whatsoever and,
56 therefore, it will not be disclosed. It may be helpful if
57 I do this because then the Defendants can come back to
58 anything they do not like.
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Which day was that again?
