Day 175 - 18 Oct 95 - Page 12
1 effect of reducing wastage counts/costs. I also noticed
2 this practice when I visited the Nottingham store
3 recently."
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5 You live in Nottingham now, do you?
6 A. That is right.
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8 Q. Is that paragraph a true record of your experience?
9 A. Definitely, yes.
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11 Q. "After leaving McDonald's employ, I had gastric problems.
12 I had been used to eating primarily McDonald's free food
13 for the six months I was full-time. We would eat as much
14 as we could. For me, it was compensation for low pay and
15 to save money. However, when I left, I tried to eat
16 healthier food and my stomach/body was not used to it - to
17 fibre. I got the runs. I also felt a real physical
18 craving to continue with McDonald's food, but I have not
19 eaten it since."
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21 Is there anything there which you would change?
22 A. No.
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24 Q. So that is a true, accurate record ---
25 A. It is, yes.
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27 Q. -- of your experience? I would like to go through and ask
28 the witness to explain what he means in his statement.
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30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Mr. Rampton, I want to hear what Mr. Morris
31 has to say and I want to ask him some questions.
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33 MR. RAMPTON: I thought your Lordship wanted me to find the
34 ruling, which I have done. That was all.
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36 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, but come back to that in that moment
37 though when your turn comes. Is there a McDonald's witness
38 with regard to such -----
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40 MR. RAMPTON: No.
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You really have to think what you are going
43 to do, you know, quite apart from anything else.
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45 MR. MORRIS: I am going to ask the witness, if I am allowed to,
46 to explain what he means in his statement and the specific
47 things that he says.
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49 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Certainly, if there is any doubt about it,
50 you can do that. But what I am anxious about -- I will be
51 completely candid with you -- is you will say: "Explain
52 about that", and it will not be an explanation of what it
53 means, because what it means is totally clear from the
54 statement; but that you are asking for some more detail,
55 perhaps the mention of a name or some dates and things like
56 that, when, if you had given that, McDonald's might have
57 said: "Oh, well, if we had known that we would have
58 approached that person and by now had a statement in
59 answer", which is exactly what I want to avoid.
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