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     1        Pleading.
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     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  So it is in the Abstract?
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     5   MS. STEEL:   Yes, it is; sorry.
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     7   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It does not matter as long as I am
     8        straight.  I was anxious, because I make it plain to
     9        everyone I have been working off the Abstract rather than
    10        dipping into the original bundle of pleadings.  If there
    11        is anything important which is not in the Abstract, then
    12        I need to be told.  I have assumed, Mr. Rampton -----
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    14   MR. RAMPTON:  I have trusted Mr. Atkinson, who I regard as
    15        wholly trustworthy.
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    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Absolutely.  This is the first time a
    18        question arose that something might not be in; as it
    19        happens, it is in.
    20
    MR. MORRIS:  We will have to check maybe at lunch time because
    22        we have not looked at these in detail.
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    24   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You need not check at lunch time, just check
    25        some time that everything that you would want to draw to
    26        attention in relation to your case in the pleadings is
    27        actually in the Abstract, because it is much easier for me
    28        to work off that than the pleadings bundle, but there is
    29        no urgency about it.  Yes.
    30
    31   MS. STEEL:   Looking at paragraph C on that page, the first
    32        plaintiff is McDonald's Corporation; "that [McDonald's] do
    33        not inform the public of all the facts when they claim
    34        that the food they sell is nutritious.  Particularly, that
    35        the food they sell is high in contents such as fat which
    36        can be linked to various diseases, especially heart
    37        disease, and/or cancer".  In your experience, in dealing
    38        with McDonald's, which you have detailed in this court, do
    39        you think that that is a true or accurate statement?
    40        A.  Yes.
    41
    42   MS. STEEL:   Is there anything else?  Otherwise we have
    43        finished.
    44
    45   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Thank you.
    46
    47                       Cross-Examined by MR. RAMPTON
    48
    49   Q.   Mr. Gardner, what did you do yesterday evening?
    50        A.  I beg your pardon, sir? 
    51 
    52   Q.   How did you spend the evening yesterday? 
    53        A.  I went to a play, the theatre.
    54
    55   Q.   Did you speak to the defendants after court?
    56        A.  Yes.
    57
    58   Q.   Have you been discussing your evidence with the defendants
    59        since you finished giving evidence yesterday afternoon?
    60        A.  Yes.