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     1        better to try to come back to nutrition witnesses in a
     2        block, if it is possible.  Obviously everyone will have to
     3        do some re-reading before that happens.  They are all busy
     4        people and one can only do one's best to arrange that.
     5
     6        Are you ready to go on with the schedule, Mr. Rampton, or
     7        do you want to take some more instructions?
     8
     9   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, my Lord, I am.  I hope I am going to get more
    10        help than I had last time.  My Lord, the thing is looking
    11        so fluid at the moment that it may be best that what we
    12        will is certainly liaise with the Defendants.  Our present
    13        idea -- it is a tentative idea -- is that it might be
    14        appropriate if Mr. Hopkins starts the new term on 11th
    15        January.
    16
    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I will ask in a moment what Ms. Steel and
    18        Mr. Morris have to say about the scheduling.
    19
    20   MR. RAMPTON:  We would like to get environment/index.html">litter and trees out of the
    21        way, finish that part of the case, put it away and then
    22        either finish another one, but that is not going to be
    23        possible because nutrition will not be ready, I suspect, by
    24        the end of the second week, and then start with
    25        slaughtering and food and safety people at the beginning of
    26        the week of 23rd/24th -- in what particular order at the
    27        moment, I do not know.
    28
    29   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I propose to do is give Ms. Steel and
    30        Mr. Morris an opportunity to say anything further they wish
    31        to say about the order of events so you can hear and you
    32        can consider it.
    33
    34   MR. RAMPTON:  When we have heard what they have to say -- it
    35        will not, I think, be decided this afternoon, I would be
    36        surprised if it was -- we will communicate with them.  Then
    37        the only remaining thing would be what sort of notice would
    38        your Lordship like of the order in which they are going to
    39        be called when we have reached an agreement, if we send it
    40        into court.
    41
    42   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I would like, if she would be so kind,
    43        Mrs. Brinley-Codd, to write me an open letter to arrive on
    44        or before Friday, 6th January ---
    45
    46   MR. RAMPTON:  Very well, my Lord.
    47
    48   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  -- saying what the proposals are and the
    49        extent to which they have been agreed.
    50 
    51   MR. RAMPTON:  We will send a copy of that to the Defendants. 
    52 
    53   MS. STEEL:  We do not know whether Mr. Hopkins is available at
    54        the beginning of that week but, bearing in mind that it is
    55        only half a day because you said you could not sit until
    56        2 o'clock, if Mr. Siddique is available on 11th, it might
    57        be appropriate to hear him on 11th because, if that is just
    58        about environment/index.html">litter, hopefully, it could be done in half a day.
    59
    60   MR. RAMPTON:  That is a matter for discussion.

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