Day 169 - 04 Oct 95 - Page 33
1 MS. STEEL: It is not necessarily a question of very extensive
2 legal advice. I mean, often it is just quite hard to
3 arrange a time when we can both attend a meeting -- I mean
4 both as in both of us and the solicitor and/or barrister.
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6 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I am bit puzzled -----
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8 MS. STEEL: We are going to do our best anyway.
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do your very best. Do not assume that I will
11 not say: "No, we must get on with it next week" because
12 that may very well be the situation if we cannot fill the
13 time anyway.
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15 MR. RAMPTON: I do not know whether, my Lord, it was the fruit
16 of legal advice or not, but there was, if your Lordship
17 remembers, extensive reference to Charleston in the
18 Defendants' skeleton argument when they sought to strike
19 out the case on nutrition.
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21 MS. STEEL: Which is why we have a different opinion on what
22 the Charleston case means.
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24 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do not let us argue it now.
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26 MR. MORRIS: Can I just say that just regarding the Bath
27 documents as a result of the cross-examination of
28 Mr. Richards, we would like to add a couple of documents to
29 the list. I do not know if you still have the list
30 somewhere?
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32 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes
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34 MR. MORRIS: The service history file for 1994, which is
35 basically about maintenance of equipment and stuff like
36 that, and the internal temperatures check book, I believe
37 Mr. Richards called it, where they note the internal
38 temperatures of the food that is cooked, meat products. I
39 am just saying 1994 because that seems to be the reasonable
40 time in issue.
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Right.
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44 MR. RAMPTON: While your Lordship and the Defendants were
45 discussing matters a moment ago, I have been told that
46 Mr. Fairgreave would be in difficulties on 11th, 12th and
47 13th, but is free on 9th and 10th. Whether that helps or
48 not, I do not know, if your Lordship has a preference for
49 Mr. Fairgreave, which I understand you do.
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51 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you know what the difficulty is on 11th?
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53 MR. RAMPTON: No, my Lord, I do not. I am a little bit, shall
54 I say, cautious about poor Mr. Fairgreave because he has
55 been brought up and put down so many times before. He is
56 doing a presentation on behalf of McDonald's to an outside
57 body. I am unwilling, given the history, to disturb him
58 yet again. He is free on the 9th and 10th. We have told
59 him for the time being to hold the 9th and 10th free.
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