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1 behind Mr. Van Erp's statement or something like that, but
2 the reference for that - do you remember I gave you a
3 reference the other day in my notebook - if you find it in
4 due course, it is 34.47.
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6 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am not inviting you to look for it now. I
9 may find it perfectly easily.
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11 MR. MORRIS: Yes. Anyway, we have made our points on it. If
12 the Plaintiffs want to challenge it, they can, as they have
13 the advantage of being able to react to our submissions.
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15 There was another document added to it, which, I think, as
16 part of that documentation it had a document saying, point
17 5, legislation banned. It talked about bans being proposed
18 in Sweden. And then it makes the point McDonald's of
19 Sweden voluntarily, it says here, offered to use the
20 packaging that the States, which I think is the
21 governmental authorities, are proposing to use as an
22 alternative to foam.
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24 And basically, this is the point I am saying, that when
25 kind of faced with a threat, they tried to leap in and
26 claim the moral high ground, such as the CFCs and the
27 Montreal convention.
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29 It ends up with the point: McDonald's is making the change
30 to positively position themselves for the future and win
31 praise from their critics.
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33 That is all I have got on that document. (Pause) I will
34 come on to the USA in a minute. I am not going to deal
35 with the USA in any kind of depth, because obviously a lot
36 of it is very similar to the European situation. I am
37 going to move on to the forest cover issue and then go back
38 to the USA, the general points, and that will be largely
39 it. So I should finish today.
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41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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43 MR. MORRIS: Now, I was up until 4 o'clock last night trying to
44 work out exactly the tortuously complicated figures in
45 Mr. Mallinson's testimony, which is no criticism of him,
46 because he was rather thrown in the deep end. And if I go
47 through the references, first of all, in his evidence and
48 then I will go to my own document where I have calculated
49 approximately the forest cover needed to keep McDonald's
50 supplied in paper each year.
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52 Now, on day 56, pages 38 to 45, he begins to deal with the
53 issue. And then on day 58, pages 2 to 15. And
54 actually.... (Pause) There was a document - maybe you
55 have a copy - that was the famous Terence Mallinson extra
56 statement.
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I have addendum to statement by Terence
59 Mallinson, re McDonald's.
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