Day 258 - 07 Jun 96 - Page 29


     
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     2   THE WITNESS:  Yes.
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     4   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It obviously means something else?
     5        A.  If it does, I am afraid, no.
     6
     7   Q.   But you do not know what?
     8        A.  I am afraid, no.
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    10   MR. RAMPTON:  If it matters, we can find it.
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    12   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Ignore it at the moment.
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    14   MS. STEEL:   Of course, if we had the raw data we could work it
    15        out for ourselves.  Obviously, that would help.
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    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Maybe.  Thank you, Mr. Fairgrieve.  You are
    18        released.
    19                        (The witness withdrew)
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    21   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I am so sorry.  If maybe the release
    22        could be momentarily.  I am afraid if there is to be an
    23        argument about discovery of raw data--
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    25   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I do not know if there is at the moment
    26        because I have heard nothing which makes me think that such
    27        documentation, whether or not it could be obtained, is in
    28        the custody, possession or power, of your clients.  I have
    29        to say that it might be helpful if Mr. Fairgrieve can
    30        rustle up the information which led him to conclude that
    31        approximately 38 per cent, as it were, of the population
    32        went into McDonald's during the year, because that is --
    33        I do not recall, though he may have done, Mr. Preston
    34        saying 98 per cent.  But I was left with the feeling that
    35        he thought a very high proportion of the population went
    36        in.  I do not doubt that a substantial proportion of the
    37        population passed through a McDonald's at least once a
    38        year, but I was surprised that it was as high as that.  I
    39        have friends and family who use McDonald's and friends and
    40        family who do not, but it seems to me there are quite
    41        enough of them who do not to make anything like 90 per cent
    42        sound a bit optimistic.
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    44   MR. RAMPTON:  An anecdotal experience would be much nearer to
    45        the 38 per cent, I would think, on making comparisons.
    46        I am not sure whether Mr. Preston was talking in terms of
    47        annual visits but I--
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    49   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If one looked at--
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    51   MS. STEEL:  I think Mr. Fairgrieve said it as well, actually. 
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    53   THE WITNESS:  I can clarify that.
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    55   MR. RAMPTON:  He can clarify the point.
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    57   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  He had better come back into the witness box
    58        to do it.
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    60               (The witness returned to the witness box)

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