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1 an eye over the result, without having lots and lots of
2 documents and without revealing the name of the supplier
3 if, indeed, there is any hazard there.
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5 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I much prefer that solution, if I may
6 respectfully say so, for all the reasons that your Lordship
7 has given. For one thing, it saves any blanking out which
8 is a fiddle and time consuming, for another it may be that
9 it will put McKey to less trouble which I would be anxious
10 to do. My Lord, we will attend to all ends of it when we
11 get back to the office, as it were, tonight and see where
12 we can get to by tomorrow morning.
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14 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What does "VL" stand for again?
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16 MR. RAMPTON: "Visual lean".
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18 MS. STEEL: Can I just ask one question which is, were any of
19 the other suppliers that are on front page, APB Blisworth,
20 because we already have the name for that one.
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22 MR. RAMPTON: I am not disposed to answer that question until
23 I know the reason for it being asked.
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25 MS. STEEL: The only reason that the names were blanked out was
26 because, supposedly, to protect their identity. As we
27 already know the identity of that firm, there is no reason
28 for blanking that out if that is one of companies.
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30 MR. RAMPTON: There is a reason but I will not go into that
31 now. The answer to the question is, no.
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If you know of any other suppliers for
34 McKey's -- you might as well think about it overnight --
35 state them, because if they filled in, say, another three
36 between them of the first 17 and they filled in a handful
37 of the 1 to 12 in A2, and if you knew of some of the six
38 additional pork suppliers which have come in because they
39 would be additional to Bowes, say those. Think about it
40 overnight.
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42 I would like you to tell me tomorrow when we come back to
43 it, if you say the name of the supplier is important so far
44 as microbiological testing is concerned, which is what this
45 about, explain to me why, because then it may be valid to
46 know; whereas if it is just a way of identifying the
47 supplier by a back door method, that may not be a valid
48 reason for having the name of the supplier on.
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50 But I will start afresh on it in the morning when you have
51 had time to consider it and Mr. Rampton has looked at it
52 further, as he said he is going to. 10.30.
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