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     1        not a question of pressing a button.  There are things
     2        spewing out, a Speak Your Weight printout; it is much worse
     3        than that.  My Lord, I believe we had this problem before
     4        in relation to some information in America, I believe in
     5        relation to accident statistics but I am not sure.  It
     6        might have been rates of pay.
     7
     8   MS. STEEL:  Can I clarify what the situation is because, on my
     9        reading of the transcript where this was discussed
    10        previously, Mr. Rampton did not actually say that was the
    11        case.  He said that might be the case and that they were
    12        going to investigate.  So is he saying that is the result
    13        of their investigations?
    14
    15   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, I think what he is saying is that it is
    16        his understanding that it may be so.  Anyway, the answer is
    17        whether it is "may be" writing a programme or "have to"
    18        write a programme, they would want time to find out how
    19        much would be involved in it.
    20
    21   MR. MORRIS:  Right, yes.  I am afraid I do not accept the
    22        completely ludicrous claim that the McDonald's Corporation
    23        has to write a new programme to check on legal documents
    24        that they are required to keep for seven years.
    25
    26   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Wait until you hear what is actually said
    27        about that and then make your point on that.
    28
    29   MR. MORRIS:  Maybe if they can be given a deadline on either to
    30        produce the documents or to have a sworn affidavit as to
    31        the position of why they cannot.  Mr. Rampton says that is
    32        wasting time, but we have applied for these documents for
    33        about two months, and that is wasting time.  The US video -
    34        I do not know if you had the original.  Have you had a copy
    35        of the article?
    36
    37   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I will not dig it out now, but I can remember
    38        it.  You gave me a photocopy of it.
    39
    40   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  What we have had from the Plaintiffs is a
    41        statement about the video.  Well, for a start, we have not
    42        had the video, which is a relevant document, and we have
    43        helpfully got a transcript of a minuscule part of the
    44        video, but we have applied for the video and we think the
    45        whole video should be disclosed.
    46
    47   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can I deal with this until I have had a
    48        chance to look at the document which you are now looking
    49        at?
    50 
    51   MR. MORRIS:  I am sorry; I thought you would have had it. 
    52 
    53   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I do not think I have had it yet.
    54
    55   MR. RAMPTON:  Can I pass one up?  My Lord, what we have done is
    56        to transcribe that part of the video, the whole of which is
    57        about nearly three hours, the whole of which Mr. Atkinson
    58        has looked at twice.  We have produced a transcript of that
    59        part of it which we deem to be relevant.  There can no
    60        doubt be an argument about whether we are right about that,
 
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