Day 078 - 26 Jan 95 - Page 19

     
     1        witness is not looking at just what you want him to.
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     3   MS. STEEL:  It is highlighted; he cannot miss it.
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     5   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Never the mind.  Accept my offer of
     6        assistance by just underlining with an ordinary pen, not a
     7        highlighter, the exact sentence you want the witness to
     8        look at; just that sentence.
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    10   MS. STEEL (To the witness):  Do you see the underlined sentence?
    11        A.  Yes.
    12
    13   Q.   As I said, in the light of what is written there, would you
    14        accept that there were not any burgers from the batch that
    15        went to Preston available to the Public Health Laboratory
    16        Service?
    17        A.  I cannot accept it for the reason I have already said.
    18        I know that we keep historical batches and, without
    19        reference to my technical people, I cannot answer that they
    20        asked the laboratory for them or they did not ask.
         I honestly do not know whether these people spoke to my
    22        Group Technical Manager.
    23
    24   Q.   They indicate in the report that they had meetings with
    25        you?
    26        A.  With me, personally?
    27
    28   Q.   No, with McKey's.
    29        A.  Well, where does it say in this report who they had
    30        meetings with?
    31
    32   Q.   It does not say who they had meetings with.  But you were
    33        involved in the meeting?
    34        A.  Some of the meetings, yes.  I have got nothing to hide
    35        from McKey's point of view about this particular incident.
    36        I am proud of McKey and I am proud of their standards.  If
    37        I had known I was going to be asked so many questions,
    38        I would have got my files out before I came to court.
    39
    40   Q.   Can you look at page 10?  You see the top paragraph:  "Case
         No. 9"?
    42        A.  Yes.
    43
    44   Q.   Were you aware that the Public Health Laboratory Service
    45        said that one customer purchasing ------
    46
    47   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just pause.  This all started when you asked
    48        a question about whether he was aware that one of the other
    49        people who suffered food poisoning was somebody who had
    50        purchased burgers from a supermarket supplied by his 
    51        company, he said he was not.  The correct course to take at 
    52        this stage is to ask him to read the particular paragraph 
    53        or sentence, and ask him whether the contents of that
    54        paragraph or sentence cause him to change his answer.
    55
    56   MS. STEEL:  OK.
    57
    58   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can you do that please, Mr. Walker?
    59
    60   MS. STEEL (To the witness):  If you read the sentence do you