Day 099 - 08 Mar 95 - Page 80


     
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     2   MR. MORRIS:  They say they have a league table.  I have not seen
     3        it of course.
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     5   MS. STEEL:  It says on the top of page 37, line 6, that "On
     6        arrival each consignment of meat is sent for
     7        bacteriological analysis, the results of which fall into
     8        three categories: (1) satisfactory (2) passable (3)
     9        unsatisfactory, which means that there are more than 10
    10        million per gramme."  So, it is about 10 million.
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    12   MR. MORRIS:  He also said anything between 10 million and 50
    13        million.
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    15   MR. RAMPTON:  That is a quote from his written statement.
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    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  A quote by me from the witness statement.
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    19   MR. MORRIS:  I think I put to him about seven times and he kept
    20        saying 10 million was the figure.
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    22   MR. RAMPTON:  They are not the correct figures.
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    24   MR. MORRIS:  Maybe you know better than Mr. Walker then.
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    26   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, one can see from the microbiological
    27        guidelines that they are not the correct figures.
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    29   MR. MORRIS:  The microbiological guidelines are an undated
    30        document.
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    32   MR. RAMPTON:  If Mr. Morris has learned anything from me in this
    33        case it is certainly not good manners. My Lord, the
    34        microbiological guidelines give a figure of 5,000,000 for
    35        acceptance of raw materials.  If Mr. Walker's statement
    36        contains the figure of 10 million per gramme for that
    37        material, then the statement must be wrong.  It is as
    38        simple as that.
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    40   MS. STEEL:  At the bottom of the page I say to him: "Are they
    41        the current figures? He said "Yes".  He was definitely
    42        talking about 10 million.
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    44   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Very well, argue about it at the end of the
    45        day. Just listen to me for a moment.  Whether your
    46        construction or my provisional one is right or not at the
    47        end of the day you are going to turn my attention to this
    48        and, if need be, we will look back at the transcript and we
    49        will decide about it.  You have a witness in the witness
    50        box whose name is "Kenny" not "Walker" and you are asking 
    51        questions of him.  Whether Mr. Kenny is right or whether 
    52        Mr. Walker is, if they differ, may be a matter I have to 
    53        decide.
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    55   MS. STEEL:   But Mr. Morris was prevented from asking a question
    56        about what Mr. Walker said which, to us, that is quite
    57        clearly what he is saying.
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    59   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I have not stopped you putting that.  What we
    60        have done, and we have got bogged down in argument about

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