Day 255 - 23 May 96 - Page 12

     
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     2   MR. RAMPTON:  I have been waiting for the question, my Lord.
     3        That is exactly why I have waited as long as I have.
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     5   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think you should, in relation to each
     6        document, put what your point is when you have your
     7        preliminary.
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     9   MS. STEEL:  I have.  I do not know what Mr. Rampton is making a
    10        big flap about.
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    12   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I suggest you do is you go back to 6th
    13        May 1988.
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    15   MS. STEEL:  Can I just finish this one, please?
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    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You can, yes.
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    19   MS. STEEL:  (To the witness): The paragraph that I just read to
    20        you about the working conditions does not appear to have
         come from London Greenpeace fact sheet, does it?
    22        A.  I do not know where it came from.
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    24   Q.   All of what is written there does not appear in the
    25        London Greenpeace fact sheet?
    26        A.  But I do not know where it came from.  It refers back
    27        to The Guardian article, and you asked me, when we were
    28        talking about The Guardian article, whether that had come
    29        from London Greenpeace and I said I did not know.
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    31   Q.   It does not appear to have come from the London Greenpeace
    32        fact sheet?
    33        A.  I do not know where it came from.
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    35   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  He does not know.  Once you have got that
    36        answer in future, please leave it there.  You can comment
    37        to me in due course, "It was nonsense to say he did not
    38        know because it is obvious it did not or it is obvious it
    39        did", but there is no point just putting to a witness who
    40        said, "I do not know", your question again.
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    42   MS. STEEL:  He just said that it did not come from
    43        London Greenpeace.  That is why I specified the London
    44        Greenpeace fact sheet as opposed to if he is
    45        saying, "Somebody from London Greenpeace might have told
    46        them that".
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    48        If we go back to the letter of 6th May, I do not know if
    49        you still remember the first page? (Handed).
    50        A.  Yes. 
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    52   Q.   Do you remember this as the final letter in the 
    53        correspondence?
    54        A.  Well, I will accept that it is.
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    56   Q.   Right.  Basically it was all resolved to your satisfaction?
    57        A.  I think so.
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    59   Q.   When I say "you" I mean McDonald's?
    60        A.  Yes.