Day 142 - 26 Jun 95 - Page 63
1 or something. We are also drafting a skeleton argument on
2 one of the issues regarding nutrition. I think we ought to
3 get legal advice before we submit that, so .....
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5 MS. STEEL: We have had some legal advice on that, but we want
6 to get more legal advice before we finalise it.
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I would like you to do (and it seems to
9 me you ought to be able to do it so that you can hand a
10 copy to Mrs. Brinley-Codd and a copy to me sometime on
11 Wednesday) is a list of the topics which you want to cover
12 on the interlocutory argument. Make some kind of marking
13 against any topic which, although it is on your list, you
14 do not yet want do argue, whether it be because you want to
15 get legal advice or you want to make future enquiries of
16 some kind, because until you do that, it is very difficult
17 to get the measure of how much argument there is. That is
18 the first thing.
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20 The second thing is, let us suppose Mr. Stein's evidence
21 was completed sometime on Thursday morning, what would you
22 then be proposing to happen?
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24 MS. STEEL: As far as we are concerned, obviously, we have
25 always got a lot on our plate, so if we had more time to
26 prepare that is better for us. But, otherwise, if
27 Mr. Rampton wanted to outline some of the points that he
28 wanted to bring up on Friday or something, then that would
29 be a possibility, but it would actually be helpful if we
30 did have another day to kind of get everything in order for
31 the arguments.
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: you gave me a list, Mr. Rampton, but I do not
34 have it immediately to hand. Could you start what you had
35 to say on Friday?
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37 MR. RAMPTON: Oh, yes, easily. I would not be very long, I do
38 not think -- I am not usually.
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40 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You could probably just seek them out.
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42 MR. RAMPTON: I will do, yes. I have -----
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44 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I have it here. Is it the one which is
45 headed: "Interlocutory issues, Plaintiffs"?
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47 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, my Lord, it is. No. 2 will not take very
48 long at all. It is important, however, so I shall wish to
49 say something about it.
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51 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Mrs. Brinley-Codd has done 1 already, has
52 she?
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54 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, No. 1 she has done, my Lord. I have heard no
55 disagreement about the accuracy of that one, so No. 1 has
56 gone. No. 2 -----
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58 MR. MORRIS: That will have to come up. We will deal with that.
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It may be.
