Day 110 - 29 Mar 95 - Page 10

     
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     2   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is addressed to Mr. Morris.  I see  -- you
     3        mean the first sheet is a letter, as it were, and then
     4        followed by a four page -----
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     6   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, there are two, I took them to be two
     7        different statements, because the earlier one which is a
     8        six pages generalised polemic, if I can call it that, was
     9        made in July, 1993.  It is dated at the bottom of each
    10        page.  Then there is a supplementary -- no doubt arising
    11        out of remarks I once made to your Lordship to the effect
    12        that his evidence did not appear to have anything whatever
    13        to do with McDonald's -- which says merely:  "I witnessed
    14        at livestock markets culled dairy cows being auctioned and
    15        brought in for slaughter for McDonald's burgers".  We did
    16        nothing more than that.
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    18   MR. MORRIS:  Can I say, I have the complete statement that you
    19        asked for yesterday.  You had missing page 2.
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    MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
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    23   MR. MORRIS:  Would you like the complete statement?
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    25   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I would like a complete statement merely
    26        because I can then check that I am not missing any other
    27        pages apart from page 2.  It need not be stapled.  I will
    28        do that myself so I get them at the right level,
    29        Mr. Morris.
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    31   MR. RAMPTON:  I do not know if Mr. Morris is intending to
    32        interject something?
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    34   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, I think he wanted to give me the full
    35        statement.  I will ask him if he or Ms. Steel want to say
    36        anything in a moment.  Let me just read the second page.
    37        Yes?
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    39   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I had made the observation, I believe, to
    40        your Lordship at one stage during this case that the six
         page generalised polemic, as I call it, Mr. Long had
    42        originally wrote -----
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    44   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I have just taken page 2, that is all.
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    46   MR. RAMPTON:  I see that he has a PhD, so it is probably right
    47        to call him Dr. Long.  I made the observation that
    48        statement contained nothing whatever to connect the
    49        Plaintiffs, either of these Plaintiffs, with any of the
    50        ills against which Dr. Long inveighs in his statement. 
    51        Then came later on 1st November, the short, what I have 
    52        called supplementary statement, letter, whatever it is, 
    53        which contains the sentence:  "I witnessed at livestock
    54        markets culled dairy cows being auctioned and bought to be
    55        slaughtered for McDonald's burgers".  No further detail is
    56        given either of the markets or, as it were, of the
    57        connection between those animals and McDonald's food.
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    59        If it were right that he was in a position to prove that
    60        connection and was then going to give evidence about the