Day 241 - 26 Apr 96 - Page 24


     
     1        copies of at a convenient moment today.  I am not inviting
     2        your Lordship to make any ruling about that today.  I was
     3        going to do it on Monday because as far as I can see Dr.
     4        Carriere is going to be yet another fairly short and
     5        perhaps fairly short witness on Monday morning.  There will
     6        be lots of time on Monday to clear up matters like that
     7        (Same handed).
     8
     9   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Look, do your best to look at -----
    10
    11   MS. STEEL:   I was going to say there are other matters we can
    12        deal with now.
    13
    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Well, we will come back to the voluntary
    15        particulars on Monday because it is thought that
    16        Mr. Carriere will not take very long.  Do your best to be
    17        prepared to have formed a view on this new witness and if
    18        you do wish to object to him, to give me the grounds for
    19        that.  What other matters, apart from reading, are there
    20        today?
    21
    22   MS. STEEL:   One thing is extremely brief.  It is just about
    23        this statement served from somebody at Dewey Ballantyne
    24        about the country of origin label of imported meat
    25        products.  I do not know what position is with this,
    26        whether this is evidence from C.E.A. or what.
    27
    28   MR. RAMPTON:  I am sorry.  Yes, I think I did indicate at the
    29        time.  If I did not I do apologise.  I had intended to put
    30        a Civil Evidence Act notice on that.  I think I have done
    31        it, but again I need your Lordship's leave for that because
    32        it is well out of time.  He gives evidence as only he can.
    33        None of the witnesses of fact can about what the state of
    34        American law is.
    35
    36   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You did say at the time you proposed to call
    37        him as a Civil Evidence Act witness.  What I cannot
    38        remember is what, if anything, you said about that actual
    39        notice.
    40
    41   MR. RAMPTON:  Notice?
    42
    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Having been given formal Civil Evidence -----
    44
    45   MR. RAMPTON:  I do not know whether an actual document has been
    46        served since, but if not -----
    47
    48   MS. STEEL:  I am not going to be particular about that.  I can
    49        not remember what the situation was with it.  That is the
    50        only matter. 
    51 
    52   MR. RAMPTON:  That is all right. 
    53
    54   MS. STEEL:  One thing I wanted to clarify is that, it is my
    55        belief that this firm of solicitors is a company which is
    56        employed by McDonald's in the USA, rather than kind of an
    57        independent legal advice, and just what the situation is
    58        with that whether that ought to be noted.  The other thing
    59        is that in the -----
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