Day 147 - 04 Jul 95 - Page 43


     
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     2   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is a matter which was listed but
     3        Mr. Rampton chose not to deal with.
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     5   MR. RAMPTON:  No, I mentioned to your Lordship the other day,
     6        that is why I chose not to deal with it.  There are two
     7        things which two different departments in Barlow's are (or
     8        will do).  We are not going to do it at Mr. Morris'
     9        convenience.  It was for your Lordship's benefit that there
    10        should be, as it were, a short note on who the Wages
    11        Councils were, who was on them, etc., what the legal
    12        structure was and, ditto, which a different department of
    13        Barlow's will deal with, what is the relationship in
    14        English law between EC directives and statutory
    15        regulations.  That will be done in plenty of good time
    16        before the end of the case.
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    18   MR. MORRIS:  I am trying to finish up on some bits without going
    19        into whole new matters.
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    21   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let us adjourn now and you come back in the
    22        morning when you have got yourself organised.
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    24   MS. STEEL:   There is one thing we could deal with now.  There
    25        may be more witnesses than this, but on the list of
    26        outstanding witnesses on past topics, there are two that we
    27        could think of immediately; that is Mr. North who has to
    28        come back about pesticides and also he has not finished on
    29        food poisoning either.
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    31   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you not have this as one of your
    32        applications to amend?
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    34   MS. STEEL:  No, it is just because the Plaintiffs handed up a
    35        list of outstanding witnesses on past topics yesterday.
    36        There were a couple I immediately saw that were not on
    37        there; that was all.  I will just say the other one anyway,
    38        it is Jane Brophey, if the nutrition issue is still under
    39        dispute.
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    41   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The reason I said what I did was the list of
    42        outstanding legal matters, June 1995, which you and
    43        Mr. Morris handed in, we have got amendments to Defence
    44        pleadings 1 to 5 on previous proposed amendments which,
    45        I understand, that is Brazil and soya, and then
    46        pesticide/hormone residues to be drafted.
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    48        Therefore, I thought a time was going to come when you were
    49        going to put before me a proposed amendment seeking leave
    50        to include it in your particulars of justification. 
    51        Depending upon the result of that, then there might be some 
    52        question of Mr. North giving further evidence. 
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    54   MS. STEEL:  As I understood it, when he was in the witness box
    55        he was asked to prepare another statement about pesticide.
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    57   MR. RAMPTON:  No, my Lord.  In fact, what I said was if
    58        Mr. North should prepare a further paper about pesticides,
    59        and if it looked as if it gave the sort of detail which
    60        I would require of an amendment, then I would not require

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