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     2   Q.   So it was not that you had increased the number of patrols
     3        or instituted patrols were none had existed; simply that
     4        the amount of the environment/index.html">litter had decreased?
     5        A.  Yes.
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     7   Q.   Do you know anything about enthusiastic patrols having been
     8        known to vanish without trace on previous occasions?  Have
     9        you ever heard of that?
    10        A.  Within my time as a manager, no.
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    12   Q.   The next letter is from Andrew Gibson of McDonald's.
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    14   MR. MORRIS:  We have a problem with these documents because of
    15        the large amount of areas that have been blanked out by the
    16        Plaintiffs.  We do not know when to bring it up, whether to
    17        bring it up now or to bring it up when we want to
    18        cross-examine.  They are not confidential documents.  We
    19        would like complete copies of the documents.  They do raise
    20        other issues such as smells, which Mr. Rampton has already
         indicated, noise or whatever, and the general thing about
    22        restaurant waste as well as customer environment/index.html">litter.
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    24   MR. RAMPTON:  All that is perfectly correct.  The reason is that
    25        this case, so far as I am aware, is concerned only with
    26        environment/index.html">litter, whether restaurant environment/index.html">litter or customer environment/index.html">litter.
    27        Everything that has been blanked out has no connection with
    28        either of those two aspects of the same issue.
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    30   MS. STEEL:  For example, on page 780 under heading No. 3 which
    31        is "Rubbish Removal from McDonald's" we then have a large
    32        amount that has been blanked out.
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    34   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, indeed, because it it not relate to environment/index.html">litter.
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    36   MS. STEEL:  As I understand it, the local residents see that
    37        there is a problem with McDonald's refuse being left on the
    38        pavement which is equivalent to a form of littering.
    39        I cannot see why the Plaintiffs have blanked out this
    40        document.  I think it ought to be disclosed.
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    42   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What are you suggesting might be relevant to
    43        an issue in the case in the correspondence, apart from
    44        environment/index.html">litter?
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    46   MS. STEEL:   Basically, we have a general objection to the
    47        unnecessary blanking out of documents.  We would contend
    48        that any blanking out is unnecessary in any event, but
    49        quite plainly these are not even what the Plaintiffs would
    50        call confidential documents, so there is absolutely no 
    51        reason why they should be blanked out.  It raises questions 
    52        as to what has been blanked out and why it has been blanked 
    53        out.  There are particular examples where it is clearly
    54        relating to rubbish which is part of the environment/index.html">litter problem
    55        which is what is in issue in this section of the case.
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    57   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  We had something similar to this in relation
    58        to another document where, eventually, you were handed the
    59        whole document.  I handed you a photocopy of the press
    60        report I had of a case which might be relevant to blanking