Day 014 - 20 Jul 94 - Page 61
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MR. RAMPTON: Dr. Barnard.
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MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not want to wander off, for instance,
3 if you can possible muster his fare and get him here that
might be very important from your point of view. There
4 are various things like that I would like to raise.
5 MS. STEEL: We are trying to.
6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not want to wander off into that now,
but we have to have a little time next week when we are
7 not calling a witness just to consider these things.
8 MR. RAMPTON: I agree with that. The only thing I would say is
that I would rather it happened in the earlier part of the
9 week than later.
10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I propose to do is to leave the
situation like this, that where a specific article is
11 referred to by the witness in the witness box to support a
point of view. I will say no more than this at the
12 moment: It is highly desirable, especially if it is
expected that weight will be attached for reliance on that
13 specific article that it be produced. I understand why by
sheer force of necessity one has to take a different view
14 where an expert refers to an article which itself is a
review of a large number of articles, because otherwise
15 you end up looking at everything which is at the bottom of
the pyramid and that is totally far too burdensome. I
16 understand that. If we can find the vegetarian school
girls and the Finns, so much the better.
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MR. RAMPTON: Vegetarian school girls -- can you give us a
18 clue, Professor Wheelock, they do not come to mind. They
are not like the seventh day adventists?
19 A. No, this is quite a recent one. To the best of my
knowledge, it was in the British Journal of Nutrition.
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MR. JUSTICE BELL: It was the one Professor Wheelock mentioned
21 this morning.
22 MR. RAMPTON: Anaemic school girls?
A. Yes.
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Q. You can find that for us?
24 A. Yes, I will track that down.
25 MS. STEEL: I think Mr. Rampton is extremely lucky to be going
away for the whole of August. Realistically, while we are
26 in court, we cannot be compiling documents. I do not know
what we can do. It is an impossible situation.
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MR. JUSTICE BELL: You just have to do your best. If a dispute
28 like this arises, we will talk about it then and see what
the situation is and how best we can put anything which
29 has gone wrong right. Essentially, in some instances you
are going to be relying to some extent upon your experts
30 themselves. I appreciate if they are on the other side of
the Atlantic, or a particular one is, that may lead to
