Day 204 - 15 Jan 96 - Page 53


     
     1                       (The witness withdrew).
     2
     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes?
     4
     5   MR. RAMPTON:  I am in your Lordship's hands.  So far as
     6        tomorrow, we personally would be quite keen to get on and
     7        do all or as much of this list as we possible can
     8        tomorrow.  We do not need any preparation time, I do not
     9        believe.  We are really in your Lordship's hands.  If your
    10        Lordship would like to sit tomorrow and deal with these
    11        things, so much the better.
    12
    13   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The ball is in your court, Mr. Morris,
    14        because they are matters which you want to deal with and we
    15        have time tomorrow in which you could deal with them, or at
    16        least embark on them.
    17
    18   MR. MORRIS:  Right.
    19
    20   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You may, just looking at the schedule, for
    21        all I know, get time in the future, but I am disinclined to
    22        say we will not hear a witness tomorrow, let us say in a
    23        week or so's time, even though there is a witness schedule
    24        because we have interlocutory things to deal with when we
    25        could have embarked on it tomorrow.  But it is up to you.
    26        I cannot force you to make an application -- well,
    27        I suppose I can direct it but I do not want to.  Is there
    28        any reason why we cannot get on with the .....
    29
    30   MR. MORRIS:  We would certainly -- we do not think Mr. Shafibeik
    31        is going to take very long, certainly from our side.  His
    32        statement is very short and we have not got a supplementary
    33        statement.  So, effectively, I cannot see this taking more
    34        than a day and I think it would be appropriate to deal with
    35        this on Wednesday.  It does also give me the extra
    36        advantage which I have not done -- I only just jotted down
    37        this list, as you can see, at the last minute to let people
    38        know roughly what some of the outstanding issues are, and
    39        I have not actually had time to prepare properly on them.
    40        So, it would be useful if we had tomorrow off to prepare
    41        and make sure that everything was in order.
    42
    43        The other thing is that I think you had indicated that
    44        there were some other outstanding matters which I have not
    45        got on the list, which, I mean, we may need to address at
    46        another stage.
    47
    48   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I said is I have made a list of matters
    49        which we began to deal with last term and some of them you
    50        have got.  I will just run through them and you can make a 
    51        note if they jog your memory at all.  There was Dr. North's 
    52        supplementary report.  You served one on E-Coli on the 14th 
    53        December and you appear to say here that there is one on
    54        the pesticides residue.
    55
    56   MR. MORRIS:  That is correct.
    57
    58   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Nutrition witnesses were to be called and
    59        I made a note that you name certain -- I will not run
    60        through them now -- but there were queries about others,

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