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     1        how your Lordship wants to run the case.  I would not want
     2        to cut Mr. Chambers into two parts.  If it came to it then
     3        Mr. Kenny, being a McDonald's person, I would have to
     4        rearrange him.  I do not want to dislodge Mr. Pattison or
     5        Mr. Bennett.  So if Mr. Kenny had to start and then finish
     6        at a later date, so be it, if your Lordship wanted to spend
     7        Monday morning dealing with interlocutory matters.
     8
     9   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    10
    11   MR. RAMPTON:  I am not urging anything on your Lordship except
    12        that I would so far as possible would rather not -----
    13
    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think what I had better do is ask -- the
    15        pressing need is to deal with the procedural matters which
    16        might be relevant to the remaining rearing and slaughter or
    17        food poisoning witnesses.
    18
    19   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes.  It is a pressing matter.  Mr. Kenny of
    20        course is one of those.
    21
    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, if we did not finish next week the plan
    23        would be to bring him back in before presumably the
    24        Defendants' witnesses started.
    25
    26   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, which would probably be, and I do not myself
    27        any longer believe in the light of the evidence on food
    28        poisoning so far as it has gone, particularly in the light
    29        of Mr. North's report, that Mr. Kenny's importance in the
    30        case is what it once was or might have been.  If he were
    31        started perhaps on Wednesday afternoon and did not finish
    32        by Friday evening, which would disappoint me but not
    33        surprise me, he could perhaps finish off on Monday 20th.
    34
    35   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What is it important to deal with on Monday?
    36        First of all, from your point of view and then I will ask
    37        Ms. Steel and Mr. Morris.  Then we will get some picture of
    38        how long it is likely to take.  I will put down scheduling
    39        first of all.
    40
    41   MR. RAMPTON:  That is important.
    42
    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  In that I include the Defendants' witnesses
    44        on rearing and slaughter and food poisoning, any question
    45        in relation to the Easter vacation.
    46
    47   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes.
    48
    49   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  And the overall prognosis.
    50 
    51   MR. RAMPTON:  Would your Lordship add a specific item, the 
    52        Defendants' employment witnesses? 
    53
    54   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  From your point of view, Mr. Rampton, what
    55        other matters?
    56
    57   MR. RAMPTON:  I have to refer to Mrs. Brinley-Codd's shopping
    58        list to be able to tell your Lordship that.  My Lord, there
    59        is nothing else urgent as far as I am concerned.
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