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.
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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.
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12 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We will have a five minute break now and
13 then carry on with rearing and slaughter.
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15 (Short Adjournment)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
