Day 191 - 24 Nov 95 - Page 17


     
     1   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  We will see how we go.
     2
     3   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, that leaves me with only two things to
     4        say in general about the schedule:  The one that I handed
     5        up the other day is no longer accurate, obviously, because
     6        people have been moved.  I will redo that.  The other thing
     7        is that it is as generous and the most pessimistic that
     8        I could think of; one could, in fact, by efficient use of
     9        time make it a good deal shorter.
    10
    11        Two things that bear on that are, first, that it now
    12        appears, though I have not had it confirmed, that
    13        Mr. Bowland and Mr. Cantor are not going to be live
    14        witnesses.  The other one, which I have allowed for in the
    15        schedule your Lordship has got or the calendar that
    16        I handed up the other day, is the nutritious evidence.
    17
    18   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That is right.  Mr. Cantor and Mr. Bowland
    19        are both to be read, are they?
    20
    21   MR. RAMPTON:  That is the suggestion that I picked up from
    22        Mr. Morris.  Whether it is right that they are not coming
    23        has not actually been confirmed, but my suspicion is that
    24        they are not coming.  Therefore, one could lose them.  Then
    25        the other question, as I say, is whether, in fact, there
    26        needs to be any further nutrition evidence.  I have allowed
    27        for it but it may be that, in the light of your Lordship's
    28        ruling on the nutrition meaning, it will not be needed.
    29
    30   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I have not turned my mind to that.
    31
    32   MR. RAMPTON:  I know.  I was not proposing to canvass it now.
    33        I merely mention it as a possibility, as a possible way of
    34        shortening the schedule.
    35
    36   MR. MORRIS:  We probably are going to call Mr. Soriano.
    37        Mr. Rampton is right that we have not finally made a
    38        decision on Mr. Cantor -----
    39
    40   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I am not asking you for an answer on
    41        Mr. Cantor and Mr. Bowland.  All I am doing is, as I have
    42        done in the past, relying on you to tell me as soon as you
    43        know that the witness is going to be read to let me know.
    44
    45   MR. MORRIS:  Of course.
    46
    47   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  So, query, call Mr. Soriano?
    48
    49   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  I think what we will do, we will phone
    50        Mr. Cantor and Mr. Bowland -- we have been trying to get 
    51        hold of them -- and then make a final decision on that one 
    52        fairly soon. 
    53
    54   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I do need answers to these things fairly
    55        soon.  It is not just for the convenience of Mr. Morris and
    56        his witnesses; it is also for the convenience of my
    57        witnesses, particularly the ones that are employed by
    58        McDonald's such as the two people in Costa Rica, for
    59        example, and the independent experts like Mr. Bateman.
    60        I really do have to have some idea what witnesses finally

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