Day 291 - 31 Oct 96 - Page 33


     
     1        interrogator.  If it were more than a week, then I would
     2        cut down mine so as to keep it within the three weeks.  But
     3        I don't actually believe that I am going to take ten full
     4        court days.
     5
     6        The reason I am being a bit cautious is that I have made
     7        a very large number of calculations, particularly in
     8        relation to nutrition, which I believe to be important, and
     9        I would have to explain to your Lordship how I have done
    10        them.  That is bound to take a bit of time.
    11
    12   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   We will have a five minute break now and
    13        then carry on with rearing and slaughter.
    14
    15                         (Short Adjournment)
    16
    17   MS. STEEL:   Can I just say about the fact that I have been
    18        reading out extracts of transcripts and it might appear as
    19        though there is no purpose in it?  The problem is that I am
    20        completely tired, and I am reading them out for a purpose.
    21        I want to, kind of, give an explanation for the reason
    22        behind that, but I am feeling pressured to try and get
    23        through it quickly, and feeling tired and not particularly
    24        about thinking on my feet.  It is making it not very
    25        effective all in all.  I would like to ask that I could
    26        leave the policy part and basically write it up over the
    27        weekend and then just to do it on the tail end of one
    28        afternoon next week, if we, you know, finish a particular
    29        subject early or if Mr. Morris is exhausted, or something
    30        like that, and that way it will not take as long and it
    31        will make a lot more sense than if I try and stumble my way
    32        through it now.
    33
    34   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You can certainly do that.  If you do that,
    35        do not read it out when you give it to me.  Give it to
    36        Mr. Glenn when you come back on Monday morning.  I will
    37        read it at some time, and then all you need do is to say,
    38        'Take what I have written on policy as read.  I would just
    39        like to add this point or that point.'  The whole point of
    40        reducing matters to writing is that you do not have to read
    41        them out in court.  The same would have applied to the word
    42        processed submissions you gave me on two occasions during
    43        this week.  I can perfectly well read them, it saves a lot
    44        of time, and when you are reading through what you have
    45        word processed all you have to do is put a '1' here, a ' 2
    46        1' there, and a '3' there, and make notes 1, 2, 3, that you
    47        want to elaborate in this way.
    48
    49   MS. STEEL:   I am not entirely happy about that, because this is
    50        a public hearing and we actually feel it is important that, 
    51        you know, the case is accessible to ordinary members of the 
    52        public if they wish to find out what has gone on in the 
    53        case.
    54
    55   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   You have hinted at that before.  Whatever
    56        may have been said about evidence I do not accept it in
    57        this respect, because the point of evidence you will want
    58        to refer me to has already been given in public.  If you
    59        say, 'day 200 page 18, line this' and you do not have to
    60        say the line, 'the topic is this', that item has already

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