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1 poisoning and rearing and slaughter.
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If you are going to call a Jarret witness,
4 when is it anticipated statements will be disclosed?
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6 MR. RAMPTON: I hope -- and always hope -- sooner rather than
7 later.
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9 MR. JUSTICE BELL: They ought to be disclosed during the
10 half-term week or before.
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12 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, certainly. I would be amazed if they were
13 not served before then, but they will certainly be served
14 in that week, if not before, which is two and a half weeks
15 before witnesses are called anyway.
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What seems sensible to me is that statements
18 of any Jarret witnesses whom it is proposed to call or who
19 may be called be served on the Defendants on or before
20 Tuesday, 21st February. There should not be any difficulty
21 about that.
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23 MR. RAMPTON: No. I do not believe there is any difficulty
24 about it; if there is a difficulty, we will mention it to
25 your Lordship.
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You have to work on the basis that the Jarret
28 witnesses, if they are to be called, will be called over
29 Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the 8th, 9th and 10th
30 March. So that come Monday, 20th March, we have reached
31 the moment for you to call your witnesses.
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33 MR. MORRIS: Yes, that is reasonable. We will try to organise
34 an order.
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36 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Make the best arrangements you can, then
37 write them in the boxes and give them to Mrs. Brinley-Codd
38 and then in due course I will get my copy.
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40 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, it is not a technical point at all. We
41 have witnesses to organise, some of them from America, to
42 follow the Defendants' witnesses. Unless we get reasonable
43 notice of the number and the length and the timing of their
44 witnesses, we simply cannot make arrangements; that is all
45 it is.
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The sooner you can write them in, the better.
48 What I suggest is we come back to any question of that
49 before half term.
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51 MR. RAMPTON: I say now, I am not intending to argue it now.
52 I will come back, if I may, to the question of the
53 Defendants' employment witnesses on Monday. I mention it
54 now to give notice that I will raise it. There may be some
55 submissions I shall make to your Lordship and ask your
56 Lordship for a ruling and direction.
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: In what sort of area?
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60 MR. RAMPTON: Notice of who is actually coming to court for the
