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2 The next was that the Defendants wanted documents relating
3 to the 13,076, or whatever it was, patties that Mr. Walker
4 said were destroyed daily for chemical and microbiological
5 testing by Mr. Walker. I shall have a good deal to say
6 about that. The Defendants want what they call Jarret
7 documents. They have not specified them (not all of them),
8 but in particular those seen by Professor Jackson.
9 Professor Jackson has never been to Jarrets, so one can
10 forget that aspect of it. He went to Midland Meat
11 Packers. I have a good deal to say about that.
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13 They want, they say, the original documents underlying the
14 accidents statistics. What they have are original
15 documents, not documents prepared for these proceedings.
16 It will be a matter for heated dispute whether they are
17 entitled or should have anything else.
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19 Then there was a reference to soya in Mr. Cesca's second
20 affidavit, page 8, paragraph ten. I am afraid to say that
21 I did not understand the nature of the application.
22 Perhaps your Lordship did, and I can deal with it in due
23 course.
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25 The dispute about the status of the PHLS report; your
26 Lordship has dealt with and disposed of this morning.
27 Ditto the question about the report on the 1982 Oregon
28 incident.
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30 My Lord, finally I have got outstanding Ms. Steel's request
31 for clarification about the nature and effect of the
32 defence to counterclaim, the defence of justification.
33 That is something which I see no particular urgency about.
34 I do not know whether your Lordship does. I can deal with
35 it at any time which may be convenient to your Lordship.
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am relieved that I have all those on my
38 list. Let me just look through my list again. Did you
39 want to say anything more on the USA supply sources or list
40 of suppliers, or had you said everything you wish to say on
41 that?
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43 MR. RAMPTON: I had understood your Lordship had really said no
44 to that.
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46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: In any event, you did argue back on it.
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48 MR. RAMPTON: The only thing I should add to that, I said there
49 is a list of main suppliers for '83, which indeed there is;
50 there is also a complete list, main and subsidiary, for
51 1989. There is, in fact, as Mrs. Brinley-Codd pointed out
52 to me after I sat down, an intervening list of main
53 suppliers for 1987. That is contained in some documents
54 which were disclosed at or about the time that Dr. Gomez
55 Gonzalez was first here. The Defendants have those
56 documents.
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58 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do not come back for a moment. I am just
