Day 205 - 17 Jan 96 - Page 45


     
     1   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is obviously an advantage if all the
     2        parties and I as well have an abstract in the same form
     3        which includes any amendments which have been allowed.
     4
     5   MR. RAMPTON:  Brazil should be in your Lordship's, it is in ours
     6        on page 3 of tab 1.
     7
     8   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just pause a moment.
     9
    10   MR. RAMPTON:  No, we have not done it for everything, that is
    11        quite true, but Brazil is in there, in this copy.  I do not
    12        believe the latest, one might call, child labour citations
    13        have been included yet; we will do that.  Stick them on the
    14        end, I guess, is the best way of doing that.
    15
    16   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  In particular C on page 3 ......
    17
    18   MR. RAMPTON:  That is the one your Lordship gave leave for.
    19
    20   MS. STEEL:  I only wanted to say that from the fact that the
    21        Plaintiffs are updating this, it appears that they probably
    22        got it on computer on disk or could maybe copy it on to a
    23        disk which would save us typing in the whole pleadings.
    24        Then if the same thing happens again, if they could let us
    25        have the disk, we can update it and provide copies to the
    26        court rather than the Plaintiffs doing it.  That is all.
    27
    28   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, I think you are right.  It is there.
    29        I thought there were some words as well relating to, I do
    30        not know where I got them from, suppliers in Argentina and
    31        Switzerland, but I will cross that out.
    32
    33   MR. RAMPTON:  No, they were not allowed, my Lord.
    34
    35   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  They were taken out.
    36
    37   MR. RAMPTON:  I will look back in your Lordship's Brazilian
    38        ruling.
    39
    40   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I have the Brazilian beef one then, but what
    41        I do not think I have got -- again I may be mistaken -- is
    42        the addition of the matters in relation to alleged
    43        violation of child labour laws.
    44
    45   MR. RAMPTON:  Your Lordship has not got those and also some of
    46        it is about food poisoning as well, to be added.
    47
    48   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  Mr. Morris, are you considering
    49        applying for leave to make an amendment on the back if it
    50        goes in of what Mr. Stein told the Congressional 
    51        Committee? 
    52 
    53   MR. MORRIS:  I do not think we would need to because we have a
    54        statement, even though it is of the Plaintiffs' witness,
    55        and the Civil Evidence Act orders stands, then his evidence
    56        will stand.  So, unless the Plaintiffs call someone to
    57        rebut his evidence, which they -- well, you know, so I do
    58        not think we would need to.
    59
    60   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I am very unhappy about that because I

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