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1 whether you said all the transcripts or the transcripts.
2 It is highly unlikely that there will be, although you will
3 be given some significant period of time and Mr. Rampton
4 will, between the end of the evidence and the beginning of
5 speeches, whether or not we deal with the question of
6 meaning before we deal with other issues in the case.
7 There is no way that you will be given enough time to read
8 through all the transcripts of this case. That just is not
9 feasible.
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11 It is very much in your own interests for you to
12 concentrate on the points which you think are really going
13 to help you rather than, as I have said before, on
14 consequential matter upon consequential matter. You
15 probably appreciate that. I know myself how easy it is to
16 get on to a point and then pursue every answer you get or
17 most of the answers you get. It is just human nature to
18 chase these things up. You have to think jolly hard about
19 what really matters in your own interests in being able to
20 cope with the case. I have said something to that effect
21 before. I do not mean to deliver homilies, but I am sure
22 you can take the point.
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24 You see, whatever you say about Mr. Siddique, I do not know
25 whether Professor Ashworth need be a whole day. There are
26 no doubt certain points of substance you want to take with
27 him. Mr. McIntyre, I can see you may want to ask some
28 questions beyond what is a very short statement, but how
29 long Mr. McIntyre takes may be largely dependent upon the
30 length of cross-examination. So, I think we have got to do
31 our best to finish those three witnesses by Wednesday
32 evening, then we will have the whole of Thursday and the
33 whole of Friday. You then had a suggestion that instead of
34 going to Mr. Chambers on the Monday and Tuesday we
35 went -- Mr. Chambers being Midland Meat Packers -- to
36 Mr. Walker who is McKey, starting him on Wednesday. Was
37 that what you were suggesting?
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39 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Or were you suggesting we go straight to
42 Mr. Walker at an earlier time?
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44 MR. MORRIS: No.
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46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What is your reason for making that
47 suggestion?
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49 MR. MORRIS: The hygiene and animal welfare, well, food
50 poisoning is really part of hygiene, is a substantial new
51 section of the case ----
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53 MR. RAMPTON: No, it is not.
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55 MR. MORRIS: --- although it was briefly touched on in very
56 general terms by Mr. Gonzales. Two days' preparation just
57 is not enough. We will not be ready to cross-examine, to
58 organise the documents that we do have. The problem seems
59 to be that the schedule has become, I know they do not
60 become tablets of stone because they never can do, but once
