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
