Day 021 - 29 Jul 94 - Page 04


     
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         MR. RAMPTON:  It arises out of the cross-examination.
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         MS. STEEL:  We are not discussing a vegetarian diet in this
     3        case; we are discussing a high fat, low fibre diet.
 
     4   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  As with everything else, we have it and
              I will decide whether it is relevant in due course..
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         MR. RAMPTON:  Ms. Steel can take objection at the time when I
     6        ask the question, as I duly will.
 
     7   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Where does that go?
 
     8   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, it should have one of
              Mrs. Brinley-Codd's yellow Post-Its on it.  In fact, your
     9        Lordship will find that in the orange bundle for Professor
              Wheelock there is a blank in tab 10.  I suggest we leave
    10        that as it is so everybody is the same.  My Lord, those
              are the raw data, the questionnaires, which your Lordship
    11        asked us to disclose in relation to the diet survey
              McDonald's did for their employees.
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         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Since the question of vegetarians has been
    13        raised, when I was looking through a transcript of
              Professor Wheelock I remember making a perhaps not
    14        entirely serious reference to three young ladies in
              Worksop who ate an awful lot of lettuce.  That in the
    15        transcript has come out as "three young ladies in Worksop
              who wrote an awful of lot of letters."  That is of total
    16        insignificance, but I can see how that sort of thing
              arises.  I am not reading every single transcript every
    17        day as it comes.  I will obviously go through them in the
              future.  If anything is picked up which may ultimately be
    18        of more significance, it would be nice if it could be put
              right ---
    19
         MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I have encountered -----
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         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  -- rather than in some months time when
    21        people will have forgotten just what was said.
 
    22   MR. RAMPTON:  I notice that in some places it is quite
              significant, the error that has been made.  A lot of
    23        things I have been reported as saying I know I did not
              say.  That is perhaps because I sometimes speak
    24        indistinctly and it makes it difficult for the
              transcribers.  It is my intention to read through the
    25        transcripts during the vacation, so that I or Mr. Atkinson
              will then be able to give your Lordship an update on what 
    26        we think the corrections are that need to be made. 
  
    27   MS. STEEL:   Are the tapes actually kept?
 
    28   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, they are.  There is no trouble about
              that.  If there was something which was absolutely thought
    29        to be crucial and some doubt about it, at some time in the
              future it could be checked -- I am sure it could -- but if
    30        it is picked up while people can actually remember
              something about it, it is sometimes easier.  That is all.

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