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     2   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
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     4   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If something occurs to you that for any
     5        reason you want to raise with a witness who is in the
     6        witness box but has not completed their evidence, raise it
     7        with me in open court and we will discuss it. Have
     8        Ms. Steel and Mr. Morris got copies of this?
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    10   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
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    12   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, they have.  My Lord, one observation before
    13        your Lordship suggests or anybody else when Professor
    14        Crawford might come back, obviously that depends to some
    15        considerable extent on his own availability, is that
    16        Professor Ashworth who is down for Tuesday, 18th October,
    17        now tells us he cannot do that date.  So that is a gap.
    18        So might also Monday, 17th be if the Defendants take up
    19        your Lordship's suggestion about Sally Bundy.  If that
    20        happened that would mean, other things being equal and
    21        going according to plan, that Monday 17th and/or Tuesday
    22        18th would be available for Professor Crawford.
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    24   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The reason I raise it is, if it were
    25        possible without causing delay, I would like to get all
    26        the nutrition witnesses finished before we moved on.  It
    27        is not absolutely essential, but then all the parties and
    28        I know that that is the evidence on nutrition.
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    30   MR. RAMPTON:  We would much prefer that too which is why I make
    31        this suggestion of the 17th, if it is convenient.
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    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Did you want to say something about that?
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    35   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  Obviously, I think we would prefer to have
    36        Sally Bundy on.  We have asked her to change her time
    37        twice.  She is a very, very difficult to get hold of in
    38        any case.  Professor Crawford has just indicated that he
    39        could do the 18th as long as he did not leave the court
    40        too late.
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    42   MR. RAMPTON:  I cannot make a guarantee that I will not take at
    43        least a whole day.  That is why I am suggesting two days.
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    45   THE WITNESS:  I cannot do the 17th.  I am lecturing at the
    46        South Bank at half past 4 on the 18th, but Wednesday 19th
    47        is free.
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    49   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I think it is sensible, if may say so,
    50        to suggest to Professor Crawford, because I am much 
    51        attracted by your Lordship's idea of finishing all the 
    52        nutrition evidence at one go so far as possible.  I would, 
    53        therefore, suggest that Professor Crawford comes back on
    54        the 18th.  If we do not finish on Tuesday because he has
    55        to go and give his lecture, so he would have to get away
    56        from here by 4 o'clock at the latest I would have thought,
    57        then Dr. Millstone will have to wait in the wings on
    58        Wednesday 19th until Professor Crawford is finished.  I do
    59        believe, my Lord, that Professor Crawford's evidence is in
    60        the scale of the case perhaps rather more important than

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