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1 all means you draw my attention in the future to anything
2 Professor Walker -- Mr. Morris, as an example, has already
3 done that. Dr. Millstone having mentioned two or three
4 kinds of adverse reactions, he has, in effect, pointed out
5 that Professor Walker referred to others.
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7 MR. MORRIS: As far as I remember, Professor Walker did not
8 refer to a single reference. When he, say, brought up a
9 figure, he made no reference to that in any document. All
10 his views were not backed up or, presumably, they were in
11 his references that were not referred to, but I believe
12 that if you have an expert and if there is a large amount
13 of agreement, it would certainly save time in terms of
14 having to go through all the references to back up every
15 point made, especially if there is a lot of agreement
16 there. If Mr. Rampton said it may not be their case what
17 Professor Walker said, but they are not bringing any other
18 evidence on additives so far as I know, so -----
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20 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, but on this aspect you have made the
21 allegation and it will, no doubt, be argued that it is for
22 you to press it home to establish the justification. What
23 I suggest is you carry on as you have been doing. We will
24 put it over until the morning now. Can you come tomorrow?
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26 THE WITNESS: I have established today that I can come tomorrow,
27 but I will not know until tomorrow morning whether I can
28 come on Friday.
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30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We have to take it day by day. Do your best
31 to make an arrangement for Friday. Go away and think about
32 this afternoon. Ask the questions you were minded to ask.
33 I am obviously interested -- that is quite clear to you --
34 in the frequency with which adverse reactions occur to any
35 of these additives, if there is any reliable evidence as to
36 that.
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38 I am not going to stop Dr. Millstone saying he thinks he
39 has read somewhere that the incidence is one in a 100 or
40 whatever. After he has left the witness box, having been
41 cross-examined by Mr. Rampton, you had better have a word
42 with him and ask him if he really thinks he can produce
43 papers which support the figures for incidence. He should
44 write something for you with those references.
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46 THE WITNESS: Excuse me. I am under the impression that when
47 I first received a statement prepared by Professor Walker
48 and was invited by Mr. Morris and Ms. Steel to comment on
49 it, my comments did include a criticism of Professor
50 Walker's estimate of the frequency, but that may be a
51 document which has not been incorporated into the written
52 evidence.
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not recall seeing it.
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56 MR. MORRIS: It helped us to prepare questions.
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58 THE WITNESS: I think it is in that document that have the
59 references to the key papers, which leads me to believe
60 that is something I can readily retrieve.
