Day 055 - 25 Nov 94 - Page 33

     
     1   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Did they actually send you a survey?
     2        A.  Yes, they did; and I have a copy of it here.
     3
     4   MR. MORRIS:  I have not seen it myself.  I think we should get
     5        copies of that made, as well.  How many pages is that?
     6        A.  It is double-sided.
     7
     8   Q.   About 20 pages.  I do not want to know exactly.  I
     9        just want to know roughly.
    10        A.  About 20 pages, yes.
    11
    12   MR. MORRIS:   Mr. Rampton made some points about the survey.
    13        Did you contact MORI since Mr. Miles' evidence?
    14
    15   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just ask the particular point you want to
    16        put.
    17
    18   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  Did you -----
    19
    20   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If I might suggest, if you go directly to the
         matter which was raised and just ask Ms. Dibb if she can
    22        help on it, herself.
    23
    24   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  The matter was raised that some of the
    25        questions may be open to interpretation.  Did you contact
    26        MORI about this?
    27        A.  Yes.  This was something that was very carefully
    28        considered before the survey was given.
    29
    30   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, might I intervene?  I have to say that
    31        I feel very uncomfortable about this.  All that I have is,
    32        as it now emerges, is -- I do not know what it is, but it
    33        is a summary in the National Food Alliance's own words,
    34        I assume (certainly it is published by them in July 1994),
    35        on the results of this survey.  It appears that the actual
    36        survey, though it may be a 20 page document, is in
    37        existence.  I am not trying to stop Mr. Morris asking any
    38        questions, but it would benefit me if I could have that in
    39        my hand as soon as possible.
    40
    MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  I can guarantee it at lunch-time.
    42
    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  There is another concern.  But if there is
    44        the actual survey, we can see what the survey actually
    45        says, rather than go into what is, technically,
    46        inadmissible in evidence and, in any event, an indirect
    47        approach to say what someone in MORI has said, presumably,
    48        about their own survey.
    49
    50   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  All I am saying is that, to save time, we can 
    51        ask the questions ----- 
    52 
    53   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I do not think it will, you see, because it
    54        will leave in the air the question of reliability, and the
    55        survey has to be looked at itself.  What I suggest you do
    56        at the moment -- because we have about a quarter of an hour
    57        or twenty minutes until the mid-day adjournment -- is put
    58        the particular point not just that a survey is subject to
    59        interpretation -- just about everything is subject to
    60        interpretation -- but that the particular point you have in