Day 175 - 18 Oct 95 - Page 48
1 THE WITNESS: Right, thank you.
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Please leave the papers there.
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5 (The witness withdrew)
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7 MS. STEEL: There is just something that I was concerned about
8 that I thought I would raise as a possibility that could
9 perhaps be considered, which is about all these cases to do
10 with nutrition. Bearing in mind that we are now not going
11 to be sitting next week, whether it would not be possible
12 to have the nutrition argument next week so that we can
13 look at these papers before we come to do them, also
14 bearing in mind that Mr. Turnbull is supposed to be coming
15 tomorrow and if Mr. Whittle is still on he may go over into
16 Friday. I mean, obviously it will give us time to look at
17 these papers then, instead of this Friday, if Mr. Turnbull
18 does not go into it.
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20 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We must get the nutrition matter done because
21 it keeps being put off for one reason or another and I do
22 not think that helps anyone at all. It does not really
23 matter to me whether it is heard on Friday or we come back
24 to it, say, on Tuesday and run over to Wednesday, if it
25 requires it, but what do you want to say, Mr. Rampton?
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27 MR. RAMPTON: Nothing really, except that I do not think, unless
28 we run into the same problem with Mr. Turnbull tomorrow
29 that we ran into with Mr. Whittle today, which took the
30 whole morning when he should have been giving evidence,
31 there is no reason on earth why we should not finish Mr.
32 Turnbull tomorrow. I will not be more than another hour
33 and a half with Mr. Whittle, I do not think. Mr. Turnbull,
34 at the moment at least, is a very short witness indeed,
35 which leaves me, I hope, all afternoon to look out what is
36 a very slim selection of authorities. I am only talking
37 about a paragraph or two from about three cases. That is
38 all. We can hand those over to the Defendants in plenty of
39 time.
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41 I believe it to be the case that they have already had
42 their legal advice because I think they were going the
43 other day when there was some question where we should
44 delivered some documents, and we delivered them to the
45 solicitors, if your Lordship remembers. So, really, I see
46 no reason myself why it should be postponed until next
47 week; in many ways it would be beneficial for everybody to
48 have the whole of next week off, to be quite honest.
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50 MS. STEEL: The legal meeting that we had, we were discussing
51 other things. We were supposed to be having another legal
52 meeting which as yet we have not managed to have, but given
53 that there are new documents or new legal cases coming up,
54 we would like the opportunity to look at that. If it
55 really does not make much difference to anybody else, then
56 we would prefer it if we had this Friday off rather than
57 the following Friday or Thursday, whatever. I think Mr.
58 Rampton was doing something else on Monday and Tuesday, but
59 I am not sure.
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