Day 175 - 18 Oct 95 - Page 48


     
     1   THE WITNESS:  Right, thank you.
     2
     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Please leave the papers there.
     4
     5                       (The witness withdrew)
     6
     7   MS. STEEL:   There is just something that I was concerned about
     8        that I thought I would raise as a possibility that could
     9        perhaps be considered, which is about all these cases to do
    10        with nutrition.  Bearing in mind that we are now not going
    11        to be sitting next week, whether it would not be possible
    12        to have the nutrition argument next week so that we can
    13        look at these papers before we come to do them, also
    14        bearing in mind that Mr. Turnbull is supposed to be coming
    15        tomorrow and if Mr. Whittle is still on he may go over into
    16        Friday.  I mean, obviously it will give us time to look at
    17        these papers then, instead of this Friday, if Mr. Turnbull
    18        does not go into it.
    19
    20   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  We must get the nutrition matter done because
    21        it keeps being put off for one reason or another and I do
    22        not think that helps anyone at all.  It does not really
    23        matter to me whether it is heard on Friday or we come back
    24        to it, say, on Tuesday and run over to Wednesday, if it
    25        requires it, but what do you want to say, Mr. Rampton?
    26
    27   MR. RAMPTON:  Nothing really, except that I do not think, unless
    28        we run into the same problem with Mr. Turnbull tomorrow
    29        that we ran into with Mr. Whittle today, which took the
    30        whole morning when he should have been giving evidence,
    31        there is no reason on earth why we should not finish Mr.
    32        Turnbull tomorrow.  I will not be more than another hour
    33        and a half with Mr. Whittle, I do not think.  Mr. Turnbull,
    34        at the moment at least, is a very short witness indeed,
    35        which leaves me, I hope, all afternoon to look out what is
    36        a very slim selection of authorities.  I am only talking
    37        about a paragraph or two from about three cases.  That is
    38        all.  We can hand those over to the Defendants in plenty of
    39        time.
    40
    41        I believe it to be the case that they have already had
    42        their legal advice because I think they were going the
    43        other day when there was some question where we should
    44        delivered some documents, and we delivered them to the
    45        solicitors, if your Lordship remembers.  So, really, I see
    46        no reason myself why it should be postponed until next
    47        week; in many ways it would be beneficial for everybody to
    48        have the whole of next week off, to be quite honest.
    49
    50   MS. STEEL:   The legal meeting that we had, we were discussing 
    51        other things.  We were supposed to be having another legal 
    52        meeting which as yet we have not managed to have, but given 
    53        that there are new documents or new legal cases coming up,
    54        we would like the opportunity to look at that.  If it
    55        really does not make much difference to anybody else, then
    56        we would prefer it if we had this Friday off rather than
    57        the following Friday or Thursday, whatever.  I think Mr.
    58        Rampton was doing something else on Monday and Tuesday, but
    59        I am not sure.
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