Day 158 - 19 Jul 95 - Page 35
1 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What about paragraph 2? I appreciate that
4 3 and 4 are soya, and you say you are not making a soya
5 application at the moment.
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7 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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9 MR. JUSTICE BELL: But 2 as well as 1; and let me just read
10 5 again. I am not sure about 5. You will have to make up
11 your mind about that. But 2 is rain forest, is it not?
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13 MR. MORRIS: Yes. I was going to just briefly deal with 2.
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15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It may not be directed specifically at
16 Brazil, but it is -----
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18 MR. MORRIS: No.
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20 MR. RAMPTON: Your Lordship will remember that I do not object
21 to the first two lines of 2 so far as the end of the word
22 "regions". My objection to the second part is that
23 "section" has a plural on it, which seems to make it a
24 fishing net.
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26 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. I have put red brackets them round and,
27 in any case, down to "edicts".
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29 MR. MORRIS: Our case on that is that, clearly, there was one
30 national section which was able to act in contravention to
31 corporate edicts on this subject, and for commercial
32 reasons; and we do not need to go into that but, obviously,
33 I think it will be common ground that -----
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35 MR. JUSTICE BELL: At the moment, I am not sure that the second
36 part, which I put red brackets round some weeks ago when
37 Mr. Rampton told me what he was going to object to, I do
38 not know to what extent it actually adds to the first two
39 lines. You say there is no coherent or consistent policy,
40 whatever has been put down in writing?
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42 MR. MORRIS: Well, if the Plaintiffs are accepting that -----
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44 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not know whether they are accepting
45 that.
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47 MR. RAMPTON: I said it is open to argument.
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49 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am just asking you what the second part
50 adds to the first. What are you getting at in the second
51 paragraph which adds something to the first?
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53 MR. MORRIS: It is a particular expanding upon the first
54 sentence.
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You must have more regard for Mr. Rampton's
57 blood pressure. I am merely asking you, so that I can
58 understand what you are getting at, what have you got in
59 mind the last two and a half lines adds to the first one
60 and a half?
