Day 245 - 07 May 96 - Page 04
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2 Q. There are 8 appendices. Have you read its appendices
3 recently?
4 A. I have.
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6 Q. Some of that is material put out by your company, and some
7 is material which you say emanates from the Defendants or
8 their supporters?
9 A. That is correct.
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11 Q. Are the contents of your statement true?
12 A. They are.
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14 Q. Thank you, Mr. Preston. Please remain there.
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16 Cross-examined by the Defendants:
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18 MS. STEEL: Just before we start, can I hand up a letter which
19 was missed out of the bundle. It might be in other peoples
20 but it was not in mine, so I must have missed it out. It
21 is supposed it be in the middle of tab 10 after the first
22 letter to Mr. Livingstone in the bundle that I served on
23 Thursday or Friday last week. (Handed)
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25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: After the first statement?
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27 MS. STEEL: It goes directly after the letter of 6th February in
28 tab 10.
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30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Thank you.
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32 MR. MORRIS: Have you been following the trial since you started
33 giving your evidence?
34 A. Yes.
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36 Q. Have you been reading the transcripts of the evidence?
37 A. I read some of them.
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39 Q. Some of them, right. I am going to go through what I would
40 call lies put out by McDonald's Corporation or McDonald's
41 UK and see what you think.
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43 Are you aware that McDonald's has used beef suppliers in
44 some countries, for example in Costa Rica, on land that was
45 formally rainforest?
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47 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I am going to intervene now partly because
48 the question is improper but mostly because Mr. Morris has
49 already started playing to the gallery. He cannot put a
50 question like that since there is not a fair record to
51 sustain what he has said.
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53 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is in dispute as to whether it was formerly
54 rainforest or not.
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56 MS. STEEL: No, it has been admitted.
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58 MR. MORRIS: It has been admitted. The only question is how
59 long ago it was.
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