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1 company documents, what language they use to arouse
2 enthusiasm among their staff or their franchisees I think
3 is a rather different matter. That is not an advertisement.
4 It is not a document appealing to consumers.
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6 MS. STEEL: So if an advertisement or advertisements were to try
7 and influence children's emotions, then that wouldn't, to
8 that extent, that wouldn't be something that was
9 acceptable?
10 A. No, I didn't quite say that. It depends on the words
11 that are used and the extent to which this is done. In
12 answer to a question earlier, I said that I thought that if
13 the attempt was made in an advertisement to create love by
14 a child, that would be going rather far, but that's not the
15 same thing as saying that no form of emotion is reasonable
16 to be shown. I think all these are a question of degree.
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I have to say that I think love may mean one
19 thing to an English grandfather and another to whoever
20 wrote that document, but there we are - in the States -
21 but there we are. Just take a bit of time because we are
22 nearly five past four and we have obviously got to spend a
23 minute or two discussing the schedule for the rest of the
24 week, but what would help me, if you could give some idea
25 the length of the period of time which the remainder of
26 your cross examination of Mr. Miles might take?
27 Sit down and discuss it between the two of you if you want.
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29 MS. STEEL: I think probably about an hour, something like that.
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Remind me, Mr. Rampton --
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33 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, Thursday, if Your Lordship would permit
34 it, a two hour break in the middle because Mr. Miles has a
35 pre-existing engagement. Am I right?
36 A. Well, if necessary, I would be able to be here all day
37 Thursday.
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: But you cannot be here tomorrow, was that the
40 position?
41 A. I am afraid it would be very difficult indeed.
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43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: And there was a difficulty about Wednesday?
44 A. Wednesday is worse, but for Thursday I would be happy
45 to devote the entire day to this court, if that was a good
46 idea.
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It looks as if it would not be the whole day.
49 Unless there is something you feel you very strongly wish
50 to ask Mr. Miles this afternoon, that concludes the
51 evidence for today. Would you like to go and sit down, Mr.
52 Miles?
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54 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, that makes rather a mess of this weeks
55 schedule. At the moment we have got Mr. Hawkes coming back
56 tomorrow. Assuming that Mr. Hawkes was finished tomorrow,
57 that leaves a blank for Wednesday at the moment. A little
58 bit of Mr. Miles, the defendants say now on Thursday, and
59 another blank for the rest of Thursday and then I do not
60 know what happens on Friday.
