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     1                                           December 8th, 1994.
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     3                         Mr. Oakley, Recalled.
     4                  Cross-Examined by the Defendants.
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     6   MS. STEEL:  What exactly was the situation when you entered into
     7        this partnership with Sun Valley?
     8        A.  What was the situation?
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    10   Q.   Yes.  What kind of partnership and what kind of new methods
    11        were introduced?
    12        A.  First of all, we do not have a partnership with Sun
    13        Valley.  The situation was that we were sourcing a supplier
    14        to supply Chicken McNuggets at that time only, not chicken
    15        sandwiches.  It was not a partnership.
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    17   Q.   It was not a partnership?
    18        A.  No.
    19
    20   Q.   What exactly did you introduce with Sun Valley?
    21        A.  Basically two things.  One was the deboning line.  It
    22        was a new system of deboning chicken meat which had not
    23        been seen in Europe previously.  It is called a comb
    24        deboning line.  The traditional method was that the chicken
    25        would be put on to a metal piece of apparatus and deboned
    26        complete; whereas the system we introduced was a moving
    27        conveyer belt with cones on that you put the chickens on
    28        and each person makes a cut as the chicken goes down the
    29        line.  So, by the time you get to the end of the line, the
    30        carcass is completely deboned.  That was the first thing we
    31        introduced.
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    33        The second thing we introduced was the processing line for
    34        forming the chicken McNuggets themselves which again did
    35        not exist at that time in Europe.
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    37   Q.   You mean the part where they are actually formed into the
    38        little shapes?
    39        A.  Right.
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    Q.   So there was nothing introduced that would have affected
    42        the farming at all?
    43        A.  Not by us, not that was not already available.
    44
    45   Q.   Can you get down the Defendants' Supplementary List No. 6?
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    47   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Bright blue volume 1, Mr. Oakley, of the
    48        Defendants supplementary list.
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    50   MS. STEEL:   Turn to tab 6? 
    51        A.  OK. 
    52 
    53   Q.   If you could turn to page 21 of that document?
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    55   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is the annual review for which year?
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    57   MS. STEEL:   Perhaps Mr. Oakley could tell us.  I think it is
    58        1993 it was published and it covers 1992 but I am not sure.
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    60   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It speaks about things which have happened in