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1 Vicky Carroll, although generally not covering the areas
2 covered by Mr. Hopkins who was originally intended to
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The area was paper processing and any
6 environmental factors arising out of that. That was the
7 particular area you were going to look for a substitute in.
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9 MR. MORRIS: Yes. As for Mr. North, he says he is working on
10 his report. He was prepared to come down and listen to the
11 evidence of the hygiene witnesses which were originally
12 booked but they have now been cancelled, so he may not feel
13 that he has to complete his report under pressure.
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15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think he is suffering from a misconception
16 if that is the way he feels. Can you say that although
17 those witnesses have gone off, it is still very important
18 that his report comes as soon as possible? What I want you
19 to do is to make your decision about whether you are
20 calling a witness at all in relation to the paper
21 processing in time to say by the end of the week -- get
22 some idea of how long it will take for a statement to be
23 produced so you can tell me about that at the same time.
24 The sooner the better so far as that is concerned.
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26 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, some indication should be given of the
27 areas to be covered because I have the question of whether
28 I have to reactivate Mr. Bateman or not. Maybe if this
29 person either is not covering relevant areas or obviously
30 is not an expert, then I need not bother with Mr. Bateman.
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32 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What we need to know is (1) whether you have
33 a substitute; (2) who the person is and (3) with some
34 precision what topics, by which I do not mean to say what
35 he or she is going to say on the topics, but with some
36 precision what the topics are. If the answer to question
37 (1) is, no, then there we are. If the answer is, yes, you
38 can give me the information on (2) or (3) and we can
39 consider whether there should be a date given for serving
40 the statement and, if so, what the date should be.
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42 We will resume at 10.30.
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