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1 be calling them that week or not.
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3 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, if I may so, that is a wholly irrelevant
4 observation because whether or not we call the Jarret
5 witnesses, the fact is we will not finish Mr. Kenny until
6 17th.
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8 MS. STEEL: If Jarrets and Chambers are not called that week,
9 presumably, they will have to be after Kenny, in which case
10 we would not be starting our witnesses the following week.
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12 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The way it is laid out at the moment,
13 Mr. Kenny was originally put in for three days at the
14 beginning of next week. So I have assumed that three days
15 are provisionally now allowed from Monday 13th. My
16 understanding is that as from Thursday 16th the proposal
17 was that we would be on to your witnesses.
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19 MS. STEEL: Kenny was originally down for four days because he
20 was on the Friday before. I think he is quite a
21 substantial witness.
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23 MR. RAMPTON: Mr. Kenny is down for a whole week now.
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25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: He is down for a whole week. That takes us
26 to Monday 20th.
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28 MR. RAMPTON: I am not trying to harass the Defendants, but
29 unless we know who they are going to be, when they are
30 going to be called, we cannot make arrangements for the
31 witnesses of ours who have to come after. That is all. I
32 do not know why Ms. Steel is so resistant to co-operation.
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34 MR. JUSTICE BELL: She may not be; it may be just a
35 misunderstanding. What I am suggesting is that starting on
36 Monday 20th in those blank squares you have there, you
37 start writing in your witnesses. Do you understand?
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39 MS. STEEL: I understand that, but the problem is that I am not
40 clear what Mr. Rampton is saying about Jarrets. They are
41 either going to come on 8th or not at all, or whether they
42 may be coming at a later date if they cannot make it on the
43 8th.
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45 MR. RAMPTON: It does not affect anything, my Lord. My
46 intention is to call somebody from Jarret possibly;
47 possibly not.
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49 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If they are called it will be in that time
50 slot?
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52 MR. RAMPTON: It will be then. If it is not, then we will
53 notify your Lordship and the Defendants and alternative
54 arrangements can be made. In any case, Jarrets are only
55 in, largely speaking, because of Ms. Hovey and I do not
56 expect the Defendants to call Ms. Hovey until they have
57 heard from the Jarrets witnesses. So, that is, in a sense,
58 largely a discrete issue. It does not affect the question
59 of when the Defendants are going to call and who they are
60 going to be, their experts and other witnesses on food
