Day 146 - 03 Jul 95 - Page 07


     
     1        related question which is what one does with what I call
     2        the unfinished or outstanding witnesses, one could foresee
     3        making a clean start on the Defendants' employment
     4        witnesses on that day, 25th September.  My Lord, in that
     5        connection I must mention this, that, consistently with our
     6        policy, we are not presently intending to bring anybody
     7        from Canada to deal with Sarah Ingliss' evidence, although
     8        we notice that on day 144 -- I have no idea which day that
     9        is -- Mr. Morris said that Miss Ingliss was, in fact,
    10        coming to court.  If that was not hyperbole, as it
    11        sometimes is, but was the actual unvarnished truth, then we
    12        need to know that for certain because, if so, we may need
    13        to call somebody from Canada.  At the moment it is left as
    14        a paper battle between witnesses who are all in Canada.
    15        That person we would then probably call at the beginning of
    16        September if we needed to.
    17
    18        The same, my Lord, would be true if an earlier observation
    19        of Mr. Morris to a similar effect, which I treat with the
    20        same degree of caution, that the two French witnesses from
    21        Lyons -- I think one is called Lanti and the other is
    22        called Villneuf Gaullais -- are also going to come to this
    23        country and we need notice of that if they are.
    24
    25        My Lord, the only thing which bears on the scheduling --
    26        and I am now going out of order as ever -- is that we have
    27        prepared a list of the witnesses we believe to be
    28        outstanding in relation to past topics, not present, but
    29        future topics.  We have split them up into part heard and
    30        to be heard and into Plaintiffs and Defendants.  It is
    31        quite possible -- Mrs. Brinley-Codd and I did this this
    32        morning -- that we have forgotten something; if so, we
    33        apologise.
    34
    35        Mr. Preston, your Lordship will see, still has to finish
    36        his cross-examination, so does Mr. Fairgrieve on the
    37        Plaintiffs' side.  I have put Dr. Arnott in brackets for a
    38        number of obvious reasons, partly because the Defendants
    39        have some kind of application to make in relation to
    40        nutrition and partly because, in any event, whatever
    41        happens to that application, it may not be necessary to
    42        recall Dr. Arnott, then, for the Defendants, Professor
    43        Crawford.  It is likely, I would have said, my Lord, that
    44        whatever happens to the Defendants' application, or
    45        virtually whatever happens, Professor Crawford will have to
    46        come back.
    47
    48        Ms. Hovi is another obvious one to be dealt with later on
    49        today or tomorrow by way of an application from me to call
    50        rebuttal evidence.  Then the remaining ones to be heard are 
    51        Mr. Bateman, who is our paper making expert, Mr. Bone, who 
    52        is from Jarretts who answers Ms. Hovi's oral evidence, and 
    53        then there is the Defendants' environmental witness Anne
    54        Link, and we think it is right that Mr. Bateman and Ms.
    55        Link go hand-in-hand.
    56
    57        My Lord, I have no strong feelings at all about how those
    58        witnesses should be cleared up or when, and I would leave
    59        that entirely to your Lordship.  Obviously, we would need
    60        notice so far as the non-McDonald's people are concerned

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