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2 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If something occurs to you that for any
5 reason you want to raise with a witness who is in the
6 witness box but has not completed their evidence, raise it
7 with me in open court and we will discuss it. Have
8 Ms. Steel and Mr. Morris got copies of this?
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10 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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12 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, they have. My Lord, one observation before
13 your Lordship suggests or anybody else when Professor
14 Crawford might come back, obviously that depends to some
15 considerable extent on his own availability, is that
16 Professor Ashworth who is down for Tuesday, 18th October,
17 now tells us he cannot do that date. So that is a gap.
18 So might also Monday, 17th be if the Defendants take up
19 your Lordship's suggestion about Sally Bundy. If that
20 happened that would mean, other things being equal and
21 going according to plan, that Monday 17th and/or Tuesday
22 18th would be available for Professor Crawford.
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24 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The reason I raise it is, if it were
25 possible without causing delay, I would like to get all
26 the nutrition witnesses finished before we moved on. It
27 is not absolutely essential, but then all the parties and
28 I know that that is the evidence on nutrition.
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30 MR. RAMPTON: We would much prefer that too which is why I make
31 this suggestion of the 17th, if it is convenient.
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Did you want to say something about that?
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35 MR. MORRIS: Yes. Obviously, I think we would prefer to have
36 Sally Bundy on. We have asked her to change her time
37 twice. She is a very, very difficult to get hold of in
38 any case. Professor Crawford has just indicated that he
39 could do the 18th as long as he did not leave the court
40 too late.
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42 MR. RAMPTON: I cannot make a guarantee that I will not take at
43 least a whole day. That is why I am suggesting two days.
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45 THE WITNESS: I cannot do the 17th. I am lecturing at the
46 South Bank at half past 4 on the 18th, but Wednesday 19th
47 is free.
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49 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I think it is sensible, if may say so,
50 to suggest to Professor Crawford, because I am much
51 attracted by your Lordship's idea of finishing all the
52 nutrition evidence at one go so far as possible. I would,
53 therefore, suggest that Professor Crawford comes back on
54 the 18th. If we do not finish on Tuesday because he has
55 to go and give his lecture, so he would have to get away
56 from here by 4 o'clock at the latest I would have thought,
57 then Dr. Millstone will have to wait in the wings on
58 Wednesday 19th until Professor Crawford is finished. I do
59 believe, my Lord, that Professor Crawford's evidence is in
60 the scale of the case perhaps rather more important than
