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     2   MR. RAMPTON:  I put mine with the report.
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     4   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I added it to the Civil Evidence Act.  It
     5        went in after Miss Ingliss.  (Handed)
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     7        That has just prompted me to remember something which has
     8        absolutely nothing to do with this.  I cannot find in my
     9        bundle II a copy of the statement which is attributed to
    10        Ian Wittal as tab 31.  I just say it so that that can be
    11        put right.  I have Stuart Wittingham, which is the Camden
    12        matter, and I think he should now be -----
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    14   MR. RAMPTON:  Removed.
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    16   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Well, whatever that is, Miss Ingliss has gone
    17        out of there into Civil Evidence Act.  But I cannot at the
    18        moment find that.  Let us go back to this.  Do not bother
    19        about that now.
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    MS. STEEL:  The statement -- sorry, I will read it all.  It is
    22        short.
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    24        "I was a staff person with the Philadelphia Unemployment
    25        Project in Philadelphia PA United States from 1988 to
    26        1990.  One of the projects I worked on was a study of wage
    27        rates for fast food workers in Philadelphia inner city and
    28        its suburbs, known collectively as the Delaware Valley,
    29        including McDonald's.  My research was done between August
    30        and October 1989.  My information was totally based on what
    31        managers and owners directly told me...."
    32        A.  Can we just stop right there?
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    34   MR. JUSTICE BELL.  No.  Listen to the whole of it.
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    36   MS. STEEL: "My information was totally based on what managers
    37        and owners directly told me the starting wage rates in
    38        their stores.  The result of my research showed a wide
    39        disparity between wages of McDonald's workers in the inner
    40        city and those in the suburbs."  Signed, Mr. William
         Davidson.
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    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   What do you want to ask about that?
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    45   MS. STEEL:  What you said is untrue, is it not?
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    47   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just ask him if he accepts it, first of all.
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    49   MS. STEEL:  Would you accept that?
    50        A.  No, I do not.  It is preposterous.  Take a look at 
    51        paragraph 3 on page 1437 of your own document.  It says 
    52        that surveyors (plural) spoke to managers, not 
    53        Mr. Davidson, not one person.  It is garbage.
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    55   Q.   Well, he was compiling the report.
    56        A. That is not what he said in his letter to you.  He said
    57        he spoke directly to the managers.
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    59   Q.   There is no contradiction at all between who was asked for
    60        the information, is there -- "inquiries were made of