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1 better to try to come back to nutrition witnesses in a
2 block, if it is possible. Obviously everyone will have to
3 do some re-reading before that happens. They are all busy
4 people and one can only do one's best to arrange that.
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6 Are you ready to go on with the schedule, Mr. Rampton, or
7 do you want to take some more instructions?
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9 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, my Lord, I am. I hope I am going to get more
10 help than I had last time. My Lord, the thing is looking
11 so fluid at the moment that it may be best that what we
12 will is certainly liaise with the Defendants. Our present
13 idea -- it is a tentative idea -- is that it might be
14 appropriate if Mr. Hopkins starts the new term on 11th
15 January.
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I will ask in a moment what Ms. Steel and
18 Mr. Morris have to say about the scheduling.
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20 MR. RAMPTON: We would like to get environment/index.html">litter and trees out of the
21 way, finish that part of the case, put it away and then
22 either finish another one, but that is not going to be
23 possible because nutrition will not be ready, I suspect, by
24 the end of the second week, and then start with
25 slaughtering and food and safety people at the beginning of
26 the week of 23rd/24th -- in what particular order at the
27 moment, I do not know.
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I propose to do is give Ms. Steel and
30 Mr. Morris an opportunity to say anything further they wish
31 to say about the order of events so you can hear and you
32 can consider it.
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34 MR. RAMPTON: When we have heard what they have to say -- it
35 will not, I think, be decided this afternoon, I would be
36 surprised if it was -- we will communicate with them. Then
37 the only remaining thing would be what sort of notice would
38 your Lordship like of the order in which they are going to
39 be called when we have reached an agreement, if we send it
40 into court.
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I would like, if she would be so kind,
43 Mrs. Brinley-Codd, to write me an open letter to arrive on
44 or before Friday, 6th January ---
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46 MR. RAMPTON: Very well, my Lord.
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: -- saying what the proposals are and the
49 extent to which they have been agreed.
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51 MR. RAMPTON: We will send a copy of that to the Defendants.
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53 MS. STEEL: We do not know whether Mr. Hopkins is available at
54 the beginning of that week but, bearing in mind that it is
55 only half a day because you said you could not sit until
56 2 o'clock, if Mr. Siddique is available on 11th, it might
57 be appropriate to hear him on 11th because, if that is just
58 about environment/index.html">litter, hopefully, it could be done in half a day.
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60 MR. RAMPTON: That is a matter for discussion.
