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     1        whether you said all the transcripts or the transcripts.
     2        It is highly unlikely that there will be, although you will
     3        be given some significant period of time and Mr. Rampton
     4        will, between the end of the evidence and the beginning of
     5        speeches, whether or not we deal with the question of
     6        meaning before we deal with other issues in the case.
     7        There is no way that you will be given enough time to read
     8        through all the transcripts of this case.  That just is not
     9        feasible.
    10
    11        It is very much in your own interests for you to
    12        concentrate on the points which you think are really going
    13        to help you rather than, as I have said before, on
    14        consequential matter upon consequential matter.  You
    15        probably appreciate that.  I know myself how easy it is to
    16        get on to a point and then pursue every answer you get or
    17        most of the answers you get.  It is just human nature to
    18        chase these things up.  You have to think jolly hard about
    19        what really matters in your own interests in being able to
    20        cope with the case.  I have said something to that effect
    21        before.  I do not mean to deliver homilies, but I am sure
    22        you can take the point.
    23
    24        You see, whatever you say about Mr. Siddique, I do not know
    25        whether Professor Ashworth need be a whole day.  There are
    26        no doubt certain points of substance you want to take with
    27        him.  Mr. McIntyre, I can see you may want to ask some
    28        questions beyond what is a very short statement, but how
    29        long Mr. McIntyre takes may be largely dependent upon the
    30        length of cross-examination.  So, I think we have got to do
    31        our best to finish those three witnesses by Wednesday
    32        evening, then we will have the whole of Thursday and the
    33        whole of Friday.  You then had a suggestion that instead of
    34        going to Mr. Chambers on the Monday and Tuesday we
    35        went -- Mr. Chambers being Midland Meat Packers -- to
    36        Mr. Walker who is McKey, starting him on Wednesday.  Was
    37        that what you were suggesting?
    38
    39   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
    40
    41   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Or were you suggesting we go straight to
    42        Mr. Walker at an earlier time?
    43
    44   MR. MORRIS:  No.
    45
    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What is your reason for making that
    47        suggestion?
    48
    49   MR. MORRIS:  The hygiene and animal welfare, well, food
    50        poisoning is really part of hygiene, is a substantial new 
    51        section of the case ---- 
    52 
    53   MR. RAMPTON:  No, it is not.
    54
    55   MR. MORRIS:  --- although it was briefly touched on in very
    56        general terms by Mr. Gonzales.  Two days' preparation just
    57        is not enough.  We will not be ready to cross-examine, to
    58        organise the documents that we do have.  The problem seems
    59        to be that the schedule has become, I know they do not
    60        become tablets of stone because they never can do, but once

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