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1 how your Lordship wants to run the case. I would not want
2 to cut Mr. Chambers into two parts. If it came to it then
3 Mr. Kenny, being a McDonald's person, I would have to
4 rearrange him. I do not want to dislodge Mr. Pattison or
5 Mr. Bennett. So if Mr. Kenny had to start and then finish
6 at a later date, so be it, if your Lordship wanted to spend
7 Monday morning dealing with interlocutory matters.
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9 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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11 MR. RAMPTON: I am not urging anything on your Lordship except
12 that I would so far as possible would rather not -----
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14 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think what I had better do is ask -- the
15 pressing need is to deal with the procedural matters which
16 might be relevant to the remaining rearing and slaughter or
17 food poisoning witnesses.
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19 MR. RAMPTON: Yes. It is a pressing matter. Mr. Kenny of
20 course is one of those.
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, if we did not finish next week the plan
23 would be to bring him back in before presumably the
24 Defendants' witnesses started.
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26 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, which would probably be, and I do not myself
27 any longer believe in the light of the evidence on food
28 poisoning so far as it has gone, particularly in the light
29 of Mr. North's report, that Mr. Kenny's importance in the
30 case is what it once was or might have been. If he were
31 started perhaps on Wednesday afternoon and did not finish
32 by Friday evening, which would disappoint me but not
33 surprise me, he could perhaps finish off on Monday 20th.
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35 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What is it important to deal with on Monday?
36 First of all, from your point of view and then I will ask
37 Ms. Steel and Mr. Morris. Then we will get some picture of
38 how long it is likely to take. I will put down scheduling
39 first of all.
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41 MR. RAMPTON: That is important.
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43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: In that I include the Defendants' witnesses
44 on rearing and slaughter and food poisoning, any question
45 in relation to the Easter vacation.
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47 MR. RAMPTON: Yes.
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49 MR. JUSTICE BELL: And the overall prognosis.
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51 MR. RAMPTON: Would your Lordship add a specific item, the
52 Defendants' employment witnesses?
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: From your point of view, Mr. Rampton, what
55 other matters?
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57 MR. RAMPTON: I have to refer to Mrs. Brinley-Codd's shopping
58 list to be able to tell your Lordship that. My Lord, there
59 is nothing else urgent as far as I am concerned.
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