Day 241 - 26 Apr 96 - Page 23
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2 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I will do is -----
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6 MR. MORRIS: We can leave this until Mr. Smith attends court.
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8 MR. RAMPTON: If he is coming anyway, I do not understand the
9 point of this.
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11 MR. MORRIS: We are trying to go through and see if we have all
12 got the same statements.
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14 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, that is not a useful exercise of your
15 Lordship's time, with respect. It really is not. There
16 are a number of things to be dealt with today that do
17 matter.
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19 MR. MORRIS: It does matter because the judge did not have a
20 copy of his statement.
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I will put it at the back of F7 together with
23 a transcript of the programme.
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25 MR. MORRIS: Yes. OK. Then we can leave it until then. The
26 next one I want to deal with is George Haneka which his own
27 translation.
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: He is G7.
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31 MR. MORRIS: From Germany.
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33 MR. MORRIS: Yes. That will not take two minutes to read.
34 Shall I do that straight away.
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36 MR. RAMPTON: Can I make a request to your Lordship please? Mrs.
37 Brindley-Codd has kindly given my permission to be absent
38 from court while Mr. Morris reads all the various
39 statement. There is a very good reason for that that my
40 presence in court costs my clients money, which it need not
41 do. There is no virtual purpose in my being here while
42 Mr. Morris goes through all those statements.
43 Mr. Atkinson, if your Lordship does not think it
44 discourteous, will be here and Mrs. Brindley-Cod, so I
45 would invite your Lordship to say leave all the reading of
46 the statements until after we have done all the contentious
47 matters this morning and then Mrs. Brinley-Codd and I can
48 leave court.
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Were you not going to deal with the voluntary
51 particulars?
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53 MS. STEEL: I have not, I am afraid, I have not had time to sort
54 that out. Is it possible to do that on Monday, maybe after
55 Mr. Carriere has finished?
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57 MR. RAMPTON: Certainly that is a possibility. There is another
58 thing I would invite your Lordship to deal on Monday.
59 I now have the statement of Professor Nations, the
60 nutrition person from our side which we will distribute
