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1 without putting them in one place together and putting them
2 into some kind of coherent order.
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4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If you cannot do that, I am afraid the only
5 alternative is to just have on your list "box full of press
6 cuttings", but that will be that Plaintiffs will be
7 entitled to look at them. If you want it avoid that course
8 of action, you have specifically to list them and then
9 argue to me that there is no need to disclose them because
10 they are not necessary for the just disposal of the case,
11 etcetera. Under the rules, there is just no alternative.
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13 MS. STEEL: Personally, I think, going on what the Plaintiffs
14 have been arguing in this case so far with regard to
15 discovery, they should not be disclosable. Obviously, we
16 are going to have to look into, and I think this may
17 actually backfire on the Plaintiffs, if they think they are
18 disclosable, because we can make further applications for
19 discovery for a whole range of documents which might lead
20 us to some train of inquiry. I think they will be the ones
21 regretting it.
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You are entitled to consider that. I am only
24 going to decide matters as they are brought before me.
25 Now, I assume that Mr. Stanton did not come.
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27 MR. RAMPTON: No, he did not, my Lord. I did think there was
28 any point. Mr. Atkinson will take him tomorrow.
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30 Can I mention three little things, all supposed to be
31 helpful? As to the US beef supplies, yellow XV, which
32 I have mentioned and which relates to 1989 and 1990,
33 provides the names not only of the primary suppliers but
34 also the secondary suppliers, the suppliers of the
35 suppliers for those years. Yellow XIV, as I said, contains
36 the names of the primary suppliers for 1983/84. Pink XVI,
37 tab 70, contains the names of primary suppliers for 1986
38 and 1987; not all of them. I am not suggesting any of
39 these lists are exhaustive, but they are quite extensive.
40 My Lord, that is the first thing.
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42 The second thing is Costa Rica. I said that I was going to
43 call Senor Quintana and Senor Monroa. In fact, I was wrong
44 about that. I am going to called Senor Wolf and Senor
45 Monroa. Senor Quintana is Civil Evidence Act. Those three
46 statements, if I may help restore Mr. Morris' recollection,
47 were sent by letter to the Defendants on 22nd February,
48 1995. It is the second two, Wolf and Monroa, who are going
49 to be called as witnesses in the case.
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51 MR. MORRIS: Not Quintana?
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53 MR. RAMPTON: No. He is Civil Evidence Act.
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55 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Mr. Rampton is going to devote himself to
56 more enjoyable things.
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58 MR. RAMPTON: One other thing, my Lord. Your Lordship asked
59 about the basis on which Barnett Lenton had informed the
60 Defendants of what the position was. My Lord, there is a
