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1 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let me just look at that.
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3 MR. RAMPTON: I am not inviting your Lordship to consider the
4 matter now, as your Lordship indicated, but you might get
5 a chance to look at those statements sometime tomorrow.
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7 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I had a very brief glance overnight but
8 I will read them all thoroughly tomorrow or this
9 afternoon. In fact, Professor Crawford gives evidence
10 about cancer as well, does he not? It is not difficult to
11 anticipate that he may expand very considerably on what is
12 at the moment a very short statement. If he is going to
13 do that, it would be extremely helpful if he can expand in
14 advance. Are you in regular contact with him?
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16 MS. STEEL: We can contact him, yes. He gave us those three
17 reports that we gave to you yesterday. He said that
18 he intends to refer to those.
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20 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think it would be extremely helpful if he
21 could put down in writing what he makes of those reports.
22 If he is going to expand or you are going to ask him to in
23 the light of the evidence we have heard, for instance,
24 from Dr. Arnott, again if he can set that out.
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26 MS. STEEL: We will ask him do that.
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You see, you have probably have things in
29 mind now that you specifically want to ask him about. If
30 you have, I suggest you contact him as soon as possible.
31 Whilst he is two and a half weeks away yet, nearly three
32 weeks away, ask him if he would be kind enough to give you
33 a supplementary report, or call it what you will, which
34 deals with the matters that you want him to give evidence
35 about.
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37 We will resume at 10.30 on Thursday morning. I went to
38 put Ms. Steel's letter in my correspondence bundle, and
39 that reminded me that I have two correspondence bundles;
40 both of them have quite a lot of loose documents in. It
41 would be extremely helpful -- they are up here -- if
42 someone could take them away and give me one
43 correspondence bundle with what I need in it.
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45 There is absolutely no urgency. I have not really been
46 referred to any of the correspondence so far, and it may
47 be some time before I am. But what I would like is one
48 complete bundle.
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50 MR. MORRIS: We are not aware of what is going in the
51 correspondence bundle, except that a couple of times
52 things we thought would be in there were not. I do not
53 know what the actually policy is on this. Should every
54 item of correspondence go in the bundle?
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I suggest is Mrs. Brinley-Codd or
57 Mr. Hill, or someone deputed by them, makes one bundle
58 which they want me to have, then perhaps it could be
59 handed to you before it comes up to me and you can see
60 exactly what is in it.
