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1 are going to distribute the time between now and twelve
2 o'clock, because you are going back over generalities which
3 you have addressed me on already. She has not actually
4 addressed me on 16th October 1989 yet, which might be
5 thought to be a day of potential importance, so far as her
6 and publication is concerned. I have left it entirely to
7 the two of you to share out the time. But I am not going
8 to be sympathetic to one of you taking a lot of time
9 repeating general points and then the other standing up and
10 saying "I must have time to address you on the matters
11 I have to do". I have left it entirely to the two of you
12 to divide up your time.
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14 MS. STEEL: We have not really had time to discuss what each of
15 us has still got left to do and thereby work out exactly
16 how we are going to spend the time. But you have said
17 previously that if we felt it necessary we could shorten
18 one subject and lengthen another, so we were going to see
19 if we needed it. We were going to see about trying to
20 shorten the counterclaim stuff to give us more time for
21 publication. Because we have not really done any
22 preparation together and discussed it, you know, what each
23 of us has to say, we are not really sure how long each of
24 us is going to take. Obviously, this is a particularly
25 important part of the case.
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I have made my point. You owe it to
28 yourselves not to repeat -- this is really directed at
29 Mr. Morris -- general points which you have made several
30 times already, when setting off to make specific points on
31 something like Mr. Russell, because, sympathetic as I like
32 to be to you getting your arguments in, I am afraid I lose
33 it very quickly when there is a lot of repetition which is
34 taking up time. Carry on, whichever of you is going to
35 start.
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37 MR. MORRIS: Page 50, line 48 of day 263 he says he is certain
38 they are my own words. Then, by the end of his evidence,
39 he did not know at all whose words they were, and I am
40 coming to that. He then said at the top of page 54: "The
41 meeting broke up at 10", so I was only there for an hour.
42 Then he was asked by Mr. Rampton at line 45: "What did you
43 understand Mr. Morris to mean by the 'customary McDonald's
44 fact sheet?'", and he says, "Well, I understood it to be
45 this very thing here, which you have given me." Of course,
46 Mr. Rampton had given him the London Greenpeace fact sheet,
47 hence prompting him to say it was that one. Then later on
48 he does not know. So, again, that shows prompting by the
49 Plaintiffs. I am trying to shorten this because most of
50 the good stuff happens at the end, as usual.
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52 There are various other things about -- sorry, no.
53 Actually, one thought while I am on the subject, of course
54 the mail-out, including the customary McDonald's fact sheet
55 idea, of course the mail-out did not include the customary
56 McDonald's fact sheet or any McDonald's leaflet about the
57 issues complained of. There was some general leaflet about
58 the campaign. So, in any event, it was not correct,
59 whoever said it.
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