Day 142 - 26 Jun 95 - Page 63


     
     1        or something.  We are also drafting a skeleton argument on
     2        one of the issues regarding nutrition.  I think we ought to
     3        get legal advice before we submit that, so .....
     4
     5   MS. STEEL:  We have had some legal advice on that, but we want
     6        to get more legal advice before we finalise it.
     7
     8   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I would like you to do (and it seems to
     9        me you ought to be able to do it so that you can hand a
    10        copy to Mrs. Brinley-Codd and a copy to me sometime on
    11        Wednesday) is a list of the topics which you want to cover
    12        on the interlocutory argument.  Make some kind of marking
    13        against any topic which, although it is on your list, you
    14        do not yet want do argue, whether it be because you want to
    15        get legal advice or you want to make future enquiries of
    16        some kind, because until you do that, it is very difficult
    17        to get the measure of how much argument there is.  That is
    18        the first thing.
    19
    20        The second thing is, let us suppose Mr. Stein's evidence
    21        was completed sometime on Thursday morning, what would you
    22        then be proposing to happen?
    23
    24   MS. STEEL:   As far as we are concerned, obviously, we have
    25        always got a lot on our plate, so if we had more time to
    26        prepare that is better for us.  But, otherwise, if
    27        Mr. Rampton wanted to outline some of the points that he
    28        wanted to bring up on Friday or something, then that would
    29        be a possibility, but it would actually be helpful if we
    30        did have another day to kind of get everything in order for
    31        the arguments.
    32
    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  you gave me a list, Mr. Rampton, but I do not
    34        have it immediately to hand.  Could you start what you had
    35        to say on Friday?
    36
    37   MR. RAMPTON:  Oh, yes, easily.  I would not be very long, I do
    38        not think -- I am not usually.
    39
    40   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You could probably just seek them out.
    41
    42   MR. RAMPTON:  I will do, yes.  I have -----
    43
    44   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I have it here.  Is it the one which is
    45        headed:  "Interlocutory issues, Plaintiffs"?
    46
    47   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, my Lord, it is.  No. 2 will not take very
    48        long at all.  It is important, however, so I shall wish to
    49        say something about it.
    50 
    51   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Mrs. Brinley-Codd has done 1 already, has 
    52        she? 
    53
    54   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, No. 1 she has done, my Lord.  I have heard no
    55        disagreement about the accuracy of that one, so No. 1 has
    56        gone.  No. 2 -----
    57
    58   MR. MORRIS:  That will have to come up.  We will deal with that.
    59
    60   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It may be.

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