Day 204 - 15 Jan 96 - Page 53
1 (The witness withdrew).
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes?
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5 MR. RAMPTON: I am in your Lordship's hands. So far as
6 tomorrow, we personally would be quite keen to get on and
7 do all or as much of this list as we possible can
8 tomorrow. We do not need any preparation time, I do not
9 believe. We are really in your Lordship's hands. If your
10 Lordship would like to sit tomorrow and deal with these
11 things, so much the better.
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13 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The ball is in your court, Mr. Morris,
14 because they are matters which you want to deal with and we
15 have time tomorrow in which you could deal with them, or at
16 least embark on them.
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18 MR. MORRIS: Right.
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20 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You may, just looking at the schedule, for
21 all I know, get time in the future, but I am disinclined to
22 say we will not hear a witness tomorrow, let us say in a
23 week or so's time, even though there is a witness schedule
24 because we have interlocutory things to deal with when we
25 could have embarked on it tomorrow. But it is up to you.
26 I cannot force you to make an application -- well,
27 I suppose I can direct it but I do not want to. Is there
28 any reason why we cannot get on with the .....
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30 MR. MORRIS: We would certainly -- we do not think Mr. Shafibeik
31 is going to take very long, certainly from our side. His
32 statement is very short and we have not got a supplementary
33 statement. So, effectively, I cannot see this taking more
34 than a day and I think it would be appropriate to deal with
35 this on Wednesday. It does also give me the extra
36 advantage which I have not done -- I only just jotted down
37 this list, as you can see, at the last minute to let people
38 know roughly what some of the outstanding issues are, and
39 I have not actually had time to prepare properly on them.
40 So, it would be useful if we had tomorrow off to prepare
41 and make sure that everything was in order.
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43 The other thing is that I think you had indicated that
44 there were some other outstanding matters which I have not
45 got on the list, which, I mean, we may need to address at
46 another stage.
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I said is I have made a list of matters
49 which we began to deal with last term and some of them you
50 have got. I will just run through them and you can make a
51 note if they jog your memory at all. There was Dr. North's
52 supplementary report. You served one on E-Coli on the 14th
53 December and you appear to say here that there is one on
54 the pesticides residue.
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56 MR. MORRIS: That is correct.
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Nutrition witnesses were to be called and
59 I made a note that you name certain -- I will not run
60 through them now -- but there were queries about others,
