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1 MR. RAMPTON: No. I am suggesting that I might be given all of
2 these things, let us say, a week before, not just for my
3 benefit but for the benefit of my experts, a week before
4 Mr. Cannon comes back to complete his evidence. When that
5 will be of course I do not know.
6 A. It is relevant to my reply, when might that be? Would
7 it be in the next two months, for example?
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9 MR. RAMPTON: Mr. Cannon, that is not in my hands.
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is a bit, I think, Mr. Rampton, because
12 it seems to me important that Mr. Cannon comes back as
13 soon as possible. Can I make a suggestion? It may be
14 completely impossible, but having read your skeleton
15 argument about relevance, admissibility, one thing I was
16 going to suggest to Ms. Steel and Mr. Morris is that they
17 consider calling Miss Bundy after Dr. Millstone because,
18 quite apart from any technical argument which you have,
19 since Dr. Millstone is their major witness on additives,
20 they would then be better able to judge whether, in fact,
21 they want to call Miss Bundy and, if they do, what they
22 want to ask her about. If they saw some sense in that, we
23 might be able to ask Mr. Cannon whether he could come back
24 on Monday, 17th which is but a fortnight away.
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26 MR. MORRIS: Can I just make a point on this? I neglected to
27 mention it when we broke up last time. If you remember, I
28 had been asked to shift Dr. Millstone from the Tuesday so
29 that Professor Ashworth can come in, and I did inform the
30 Plaintiffs at the time, but I forgot to mention it in
31 court. Dr. Millstone agreed to come on the Wednesday and
32 Friday, rather than the Tuesday and the Wednesday.
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34 MR. JUSTICE BELL: All I am saying at the moment is if
35 Mr. Cannon were able to come back during the week
36 beginning Monday 17th, is there any possibility you would
37 be ready then?
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39 MR. RAMPTON: I hope so. As far as I am concerned, yes,
40 personally, of course, provided I get the documents.
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you know what your position is, Mr.
43 Cannon?
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45 THE WITNESS: I would be available in that week but not the
46 week after. I shall be in India the week after.
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48 MR. MORRIS: I would have thought Thursday would be the
49 appropriate day for us.
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51 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We can talk about the actual day because
52 Mr. Cannon is entitled to go away and see which day might
53 suit him best. Let us work on the basis that Mr. Cannon
54 may be coming back during that week. Do you need that
55 book for what you are writing at the moment?
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57 THE WITNESS: What I would like to do, as with the date, if I
58 might, my Lord, is to go away and consider what days I can
59 work on these books. I am working on a particular
60 document at the moment for other purposes, of course.
