Day 070 - 20 Dec 94 - Page 34
1 Dave has already said, Dr. Gomez Gonzalez was supposed to
2 be speaking to people from the company in order to sort
3 this out. I believe that this matter was raised before
4 then.
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6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Mr. Rampton is going to look into it. I do
7 not know yet whether there is such a document. For
8 instance, Dr. Gomez Gonzalez, first of all, referred to the
9 bottom of the page; that clearly turned out to be wrong.
10 I do not know whether he was right or wrong about there
11 being any additional page. I know he said he thought there
12 was but, equally, he said that the note at the bottom of
13 the page dealt with it, and I thought that it did not. So,
14 the most that can be done is to make some enquiry as to
15 whether there is any such document. That is my point.
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17 MS. STEEL: Yes. But, with respect, you asked Mr. Rampton
18 whether he was going to chase it up, and he said, "It is a
19 possible loose end, is all I can say", which to me did not
20 indicate that he was accepting that it was going to be
21 chased up. I thought it was a -----
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Is there anything between you, if that is the
24 position?
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26 MS. STEEL: I am not clear whether he is saying it is being
27 chased up or whether it is something that is hanging in the
28 air, waiting to see -----
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30 MR. RAMPTON: Oh, dear. I have said this, I think, three or
31 four times today. Such chasing as can be done without the
32 assistance of Dr. Gomez Gonzalez will be done. If that
33 does not produce anything (which it may or may not do), it
34 will have to wait until he comes back, until he has
35 finished his evidence.
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37 (See separate transcript for ruling)
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39 MR. MORRIS: Can I just deal with something under "2",
40 slaughterhouses' names, as it is relevant to the last
41 point?
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43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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45 MR. MORRIS: In your judgment, you said that the documents may
46 be considered to be marginal, bearing in mind the direct
47 evidence that one would expect to be called. Just to
48 remind the court, our experts have not been allowed to
49 visit slaughterhouses and, also, we have not even been
50 given the names of the slaughterhouses. So, two direct
51 sources of evidence have been denied us thus far.
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53 Although the court can order that any premises give access
54 to our experts, in this particular case, bearing in mind
55 that we do now have a witness from a slaughterhouse, at
56 least there will be some, which is of course fortunate.
57 This is the new witness, the vet. I will come on to that
58 later, our new witnesses.
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The way I was approaching it -- there is no
