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1 I have one of them, which is the Diet, Nutrition and
2 Cancer report prepared by the National Academy of
3 Scientists in the United States in 1982. I gather there
4 is also one from 1989 which I do not have.
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6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you have that there?
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8 THE WITNESS: I have them here, yes.
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can you just hold it up?
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12 MS. STEEL: I do not know whether this would be something that
13 Mr. Cannon would be happy with, but a suggestion might be,
14 in terms of some of the documents that Mr. Keen produced
15 that were books, we did not get provided with full copies
16 of those. In fact, we did not get provided with anything
17 at all of those books. But they were apparently made
18 available for us to inspect. I do not know whether
19 something could be arranged along those lines.
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21 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The problem with is, you see, what I guess
22 is that Mr. Rampton would like to have a copy at least of
23 the whole book. He can then decide how much he reads
24 himself, how much Mr. Atkinson reads, how much anyone else
25 reads, whether he asks an expert witness to look through
26 it. But what he will need is a copy of the book for some
27 days at least.
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29 MS. STEEL: But the position was the same with us.
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I know. If you had said: "How can we get
32 hold of a copy to keep?" I would have carried on then the
33 discussion which I am carrying on now.
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35 MS. STEEL: I had presumed because the Plaintiffs were happy
36 to do that for document that their witnesses were
37 referring to, it might be all right for, you know, they
38 might be satisfied with the same from our witnesses.
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40 MR. JUSTICE BELL: They are not and they perfectly entitled to
41 see the whole thing.
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43 MS. STEEL: I am not saying they should not be able to see
44 it. It is a matter of providing copies. They are rather
45 huge.
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is why we are having this discussion.
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49 THE WITNESS: Can I help?
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51 MR. MORRIS: We do not have copies of the books and we
52 certainly cannot afford to buy them, or even copy some of
53 them. That one there is about 1500 pages.
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55 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It may be.
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57 THE WITNESS: It is a good buy though!
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59 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just sit down for a moment and see where we
60 get to.
