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MR. RAMPTON: It arises out of the cross-examination.
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MS. STEEL: We are not discussing a vegetarian diet in this
3 case; we are discussing a high fat, low fibre diet.
4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: As with everything else, we have it and
I will decide whether it is relevant in due course..
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MR. RAMPTON: Ms. Steel can take objection at the time when I
6 ask the question, as I duly will.
7 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Where does that go?
8 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, it should have one of
Mrs. Brinley-Codd's yellow Post-Its on it. In fact, your
9 Lordship will find that in the orange bundle for Professor
Wheelock there is a blank in tab 10. I suggest we leave
10 that as it is so everybody is the same. My Lord, those
are the raw data, the questionnaires, which your Lordship
11 asked us to disclose in relation to the diet survey
McDonald's did for their employees.
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MR. JUSTICE BELL: Since the question of vegetarians has been
13 raised, when I was looking through a transcript of
Professor Wheelock I remember making a perhaps not
14 entirely serious reference to three young ladies in
Worksop who ate an awful lot of lettuce. That in the
15 transcript has come out as "three young ladies in Worksop
who wrote an awful of lot of letters." That is of total
16 insignificance, but I can see how that sort of thing
arises. I am not reading every single transcript every
17 day as it comes. I will obviously go through them in the
future. If anything is picked up which may ultimately be
18 of more significance, it would be nice if it could be put
right ---
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MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I have encountered -----
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MR. JUSTICE BELL: -- rather than in some months time when
21 people will have forgotten just what was said.
22 MR. RAMPTON: I notice that in some places it is quite
significant, the error that has been made. A lot of
23 things I have been reported as saying I know I did not
say. That is perhaps because I sometimes speak
24 indistinctly and it makes it difficult for the
transcribers. It is my intention to read through the
25 transcripts during the vacation, so that I or Mr. Atkinson
will then be able to give your Lordship an update on what
26 we think the corrections are that need to be made.
27 MS. STEEL: Are the tapes actually kept?
28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, they are. There is no trouble about
that. If there was something which was absolutely thought
29 to be crucial and some doubt about it, at some time in the
future it could be checked -- I am sure it could -- but if
30 it is picked up while people can actually remember
something about it, it is sometimes easier. That is all.
