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     1        the always questions I have for Dr. Arnott.
 
     2   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  Thank you, Dr. Arnott.  I have I have
              no questions at this stage anyway.
     3
                              (The witness withdrew)
     4
         MS. STEEL:  We have a couple of things we wanted to bring up
     5        legal.
 
     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just pause there for a moment.  Dr. Arnott
              will come back sometime in-----
     7
         MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I am hopeful that he will be the first
     8        event in September.  I am told he can manage September
              12th which would be entirely the logical thing to do.
     9        I hope (though I cannot give any promises about this) that
              he may be followed by Professor Walker and Professor
    10        Keen.  I know not at the moment in which order.  So that
              we can conclude plaintiffs' expert evidence on this issue
    11        and then go directly on to their factual evidence on this
              issue to be followed by the defendants' evidence.
    12
              Having said which, it would help me a very great deal if
    13        I knew at any rate, roughly speaking, which of the
              defendants' witnesses on this issue is going to come to
    14        England to give evidence and, if so, in, roughly speaking,
              what sort of order so that I can spend the so-called
    15        holiday preparing my cross-examination.
 
    16   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  Unless you require Dr. Arnott to stay
               -- we have to discover other matters, Dr. Arnott -- there
    17        is no reason why he should stay in court, is there?
 
    18   MR. RAMPTON:  No.  It means you can go if you want to.
 
    19   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Thank you, Dr. Arnott.
 
    20   MR. MORRIS:  We were under the understanding that the best
              course of events was to ask Mr. Preston and Mr. Beavers to
    21        come back and finish their evidence as soon as possible in
              September because, otherwise, if, as Mr. Rampton suggests,
    22        the entire nutrition case is heard, it is likely to take,
              I do not know, two weeks or something.
    23
         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Keep your voice up.  What is likely to take
    24        two weeks?
 
    25   MR. MORRIS:  The complete nutrition case.
  
    26   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  There is no reason why we should not 
              go on with that, is there? 
    27
         MR. MORRIS:  No, but we would prefer that Mr. Preston and
    28        Mr. Beavers were heard first, because they really should
              have been dealt with in the first week.  You remember,
    29        that did not happen.  We would like to get them out of way
              otherwise what will happen is that as before -----
    30
         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I just do not know what their arrangements

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