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     1        poisoning and rearing and slaughter.
     2
     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If you are going to call a Jarret witness,
     4        when is it anticipated statements will be disclosed?
     5
     6   MR. RAMPTON:  I hope -- and always hope -- sooner rather than
     7        later.
     8
     9   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  They ought to be disclosed during the
    10        half-term week or before.
    11
    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.
    16
    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.
    22
    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.
    26
    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.
    32
    33   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, that is reasonable.  We will try to organise
    34        an order.
    35
    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.
    39
    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.
    46
    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.
    50 
    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.
    57
    58   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  In what sort of area?
    59
    60   MR. RAMPTON:  Notice of who is actually coming to court for the

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