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     2   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I think we should do, if I may say so
     3        (and I am just putting what I said before in another form
     4        of words), you have to be prepared to make what you may
     5        see, but I do not see, as some sacrifice as to some of the
     6        questions you want to ask in order to keep moving through
     7        the case.  But, in your own interests so that you can
     8        grapple with what you have got, when you prepare your
     9        cross-examination, I do not think you ought to be thinking
    10        of every question which you could conceivably ask a witness
    11        which might be relevant to the case.  You have got to do
    12        some sifting of what you think is most important or you
    13        will miss some important points on the route to taking
    14        every point you might take.
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    16        What I would like to do is get through Mr. Siddique,
    17        Mr. Ashworth and Mr. McIntyre in the first three days of
    18        next week, restart with Mr. Walker on Wednesday 25th.  If
    19        you spend about a day of the weekend on preparation, you
    20        have five days preparation for Mr. Walker.  We must then
    21        try to get through the Plaintiffs' rearing and slaughter
    22        and food poisoning witnesses, which would include
    23        Mr. Chambers and also Mr. Ashley Bowes, Mr. Fernando Gomez
    24        Gonzales who has to come back and Mr. Wignall (i.e. the
    25        three witnesses mentioned in Mrs. Brinley-Codd's letter of
    26        6th January) by the end of the week ending Friday 17th
    27        February, if we can.
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    29   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, that would be March.
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    31   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, I think it is February.  It is the Friday
    32        before the half-term week.
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    34   MR. RAMPTON:  If your Lordship is proposing that we should try
    35        to finish the Plaintiffs' rearing and slaughter and food
    36        hygiene witnesses by Friday, 17th February, that is frankly
    37        impossible.
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    39   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That is not realistic?
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    41   MR. RAMPTON:  It is not realistic.  Friday 3rd March might be a
    42        possibility or even Friday 10th because it is very likely
    43        I shall have to call the slaughterhouse in South West,
    44        Jarret, as well and somehow Mr. Chambers has to be fitted
    45        in somewhere else.  Mr. Ashley Bowes, the pig person, has
    46        to be fitted in somewhere.  Mr. Morris wants the 20th to
    47        24th for his child's half term which I resolutely resist
    48        for all the usual reasons -- he is not the only one who has
    49        family responsibilities and it is about time he understood
    50        that, in my respectful submission. 
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    52        Then I have to bring Dr. Gomez Gonzales back.  He has been 
    53        advised by your Lordship that he should allow a week.  The
    54        week which is most convenient for him is Monday, 27th.
    55        That means it is unlikely if I have to bring Mr. Chambers
    56        back at a later date, that we shall have the Plaintiffs'
    57        evidence on these topics before Friday 10th, assuming that
    58        Mr. Morris does not get his half term.
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    60   MR. MORRIS:  I take extreme objection to Mr. Rampton's continual

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