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1 any weight to it. So far as advertising is concerned you
2 have called witnesses you say are expert on that, who
3 descended particulars as to what they are criticised and
4 why.
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6 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I clearly do not want to be rude to
9 Mr. Mitchell but I cannot see that 3 helps me at all. It
10 is just a point of view. And 4 and 5 does seem to me to
11 fall foul of the point against evidence as to -----
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13 MR. MORRIS: It seems 4 and 5 is about the interpretation, or
14 the rights.
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16 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think it is. Quite frankly, I can tell you
17 now 3 is just not going to help me. For better or worst,
18 you have got much more focussed evidence on that that on
19 advertising which you have already called.
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21 MR. MORRIS: Right. I mean, in the light of that we may not.
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I would invite you not to call Mr. Mitchell.
24 If you do, you have had warning there will be an objection
25 to admissibility when he comes to the witness box. You may
26 find he has wasted his time in coming, but you think about
27 that.
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29 MR. MORRIS: Yes OK.
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We will have our 5-minute break. Quite apart
32 from anything else, that leaves the question of the
33 voluntary particulars.
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36 (Short adjournment)
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39 MR. MORRIS: Clearing up some of the general environment
40 witnesses. First of all we are not going to call Piers
41 Corbyn, or read his statement out.
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43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let me just find him.
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45 MS. STEEL: We could not read the statement out because he is
46 not abroad.
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48 MR. MORRIS: We do not intend to call him. Piers Corbyn, that
49 is number 4 destruction of the environment.
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51 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, thank you.
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53 MR. MORRIS: Now, the next one I was going to come on to was
54 just advice on this. The statement of Laura Waters; I do
55 not know what number it is in the bundle. It should be in
56 section G.
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: She is from Veggies, is not she?
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60 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
