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     1        without putting them in one place together and putting them
     2        into some kind of coherent order.
     3
     4   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If you cannot do that, I am afraid the only
     5        alternative is to just have on your list "box full of press
     6        cuttings", but that will be that Plaintiffs will be
     7        entitled to look at them.  If you want it avoid that course
     8        of action, you have specifically to list them and then
     9        argue to me that there is no need to disclose them because
    10        they are not necessary for the just disposal of the case,
    11        etcetera.  Under the rules, there is just no alternative.
    12
    13   MS. STEEL:  Personally, I think, going on what the Plaintiffs
    14        have been arguing in this case so far with regard to
    15        discovery, they should not be disclosable.  Obviously, we
    16        are going to have to look into, and I think this may
    17        actually backfire on the Plaintiffs, if they think they are
    18        disclosable, because we can make further applications for
    19        discovery for a whole range of documents which might lead
    20        us to some train of inquiry.  I think they will be the ones
    21        regretting it.
    22
    23   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You are entitled to consider that.  I am only
    24        going to decide matters as they are brought before me.
    25        Now, I assume that Mr. Stanton did not come.
    26
    27   MR. RAMPTON:  No, he did not, my Lord.  I did think there was
    28        any point.  Mr. Atkinson will take him tomorrow.
    29
    30        Can I mention three little things, all supposed to be
    31        helpful?  As to the US beef supplies, yellow XV, which
    32        I have mentioned and which relates to 1989 and 1990,
    33        provides the names not only of the primary suppliers but
    34        also the secondary suppliers, the suppliers of the
    35        suppliers for those years.  Yellow XIV, as I said, contains
    36        the names of the primary suppliers for 1983/84.  Pink XVI,
    37        tab 70, contains the names of primary suppliers for 1986
    38        and 1987; not all of them.  I am not suggesting any of
    39        these lists are exhaustive, but they are quite extensive.
    40        My Lord, that is the first thing.
    41
    42        The second thing is Costa Rica.  I said that I was going to
    43        call Senor Quintana and Senor Monroa.  In fact, I was wrong
    44        about that.  I am going to called Senor Wolf and Senor
    45        Monroa.  Senor Quintana is Civil Evidence Act.  Those three
    46        statements, if I may help restore Mr. Morris' recollection,
    47        were sent by letter to the Defendants on 22nd February,
    48        1995.  It is the second two, Wolf and Monroa, who are going
    49        to be called as witnesses in the case.
    50 
    51   MR. MORRIS:  Not Quintana? 
    52 
    53   MR. RAMPTON:  No.  He is Civil Evidence Act.
    54
    55   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Mr. Rampton is going to devote himself to
    56        more enjoyable things.
    57
    58   MR. RAMPTON:  One other thing, my Lord.  Your Lordship asked
    59        about the basis on which Barnett Lenton had informed the
    60        Defendants of what the position was.  My Lord, there is a

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