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1 Q. Can you explain exactly what you meant by that?
2 A. I mean that the meat inspectors detain a carcass or
3 part of a carcass for whatever reason they choose to. They
4 then decide whether that whole carcass or part of that have
5 carcass or any of that carcass should be condemned. We
6 have no say in that.
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8 Q. You have no say in that. Is that what you said?
9 A. Yes.
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11 Q. So if one of the employees sneaked in under the nose of the
12 meat inspector and removed a piece of meat from the
13 detained room, removed it on to the chilled room, that
14 would not be allowed, is that right?
15 A. Certainly not, no.
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17 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, those are all the questions I have.
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Thank you, Mr. Chambers.
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21 (The witness withdrew).
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We have Mr. Kenny tomorrow?
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25 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, we do.
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: There is allowance for him until the end of
28 the week.
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30 MR. MORRIS: I do not know if now is a suitable time to finish
31 off the comments on the Ruling that you made?
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: By all means say anything further you want.
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35 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I should say this before Mr. Morris does
36 that. The Defendants must expect to start cross-examining
37 Mr. Kenny tomorrow because I shall not go a day with him.
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, very well. If they are comments on
40 things which I have suggested should or might be done, that
41 is something to raise after I have left court with someone
42 who is acting for McDonald's. Only if all communication
43 has broken down should I really be used as a go-between,
44 and I hope things have not got quite as bad as that. If
45 there are things where you say you might want to raise
46 points again in the future, I do not mind you telling me
47 that, but it is really for you to choose on your moment and
48 have your ammunition ready. Once I have given a ruling,
49 that is a ruling on the information available to me at that
50 time. In a long case that information sometimes changes,
51 becomes positively different or it advances and one has
52 more information, but let us approach the ruling in that
53 light.
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55 MR. MORRIS: I was a little bit concerned about some of the
56 matters that might relate to Keith Kenny's evidence in
57 terms of discovery that the Plaintiffs are looking into or
58 whatever, or considering their position. I cannot remember
59 exactly what it was now, but certainly the typical day's
60 microbiological testing results. This was argued on 6th
