Day 095 - 02 Mar 95 - Page 65
1 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Well, this is comment.
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3 MR. RAMPTON: It is comment, my Lord, yes.
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5 MR. MORRIS: I can think of interpretations but it would be
6 comment.
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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.
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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.
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30 Q. Have you ever in the whole of your ----
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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.
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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.
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45 MR. RAMPTON: Thank you very much, Dr. Gomez Gonzalez. My Lord
46 may be he released?
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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.
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53 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Ask you your question now.
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55 Further Cross-Examined by the Defendants
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57 MR. MORRIS: Have you still got a copy of the map?
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59 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yellow XI tab 5?
60 A. Yes.
