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     1   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let me just look at that.
     2
     3   MR. RAMPTON:  I am not inviting your Lordship to consider the
     4        matter now, as your Lordship indicated, but you might get
     5        a chance to look at those statements sometime tomorrow.
     6
     7   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I had a very brief glance overnight but
     8        I will read them all thoroughly tomorrow or this
     9        afternoon.  In fact, Professor Crawford gives evidence
    10        about cancer as well, does he not?  It is not difficult to
    11        anticipate that he may expand very considerably on what is
    12        at the moment a very short statement.  If he is going to
    13        do that, it would be extremely helpful if he can expand in
    14        advance.  Are you in regular contact with him?
    15
    16   MS. STEEL:   We can contact him, yes.  He gave us those three
    17        reports that we gave to you yesterday.  He said that
    18        he intends to refer to those.
    19
    20   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think it would be extremely helpful if he
    21        could put down in writing what he makes of those reports.
    22        If he is going to expand or you are going to ask him to in
    23        the light of the evidence we have heard, for instance,
    24        from Dr. Arnott, again if he can set that out.
    25
    26   MS. STEEL:   We will ask him do that.
    27
    28   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You see, you have probably have things in
    29        mind now that you specifically want to ask him about.  If
    30        you have, I suggest you contact him as soon as possible.
    31        Whilst he is two and a half weeks away yet, nearly three
    32        weeks away, ask him if he would be kind enough to give you
    33        a supplementary report, or call it what you will, which
    34        deals with the matters that you want him to give evidence
    35        about.
    36
    37        We will resume at 10.30 on Thursday morning.  I went to
    38        put Ms. Steel's letter in my correspondence bundle, and
    39        that reminded me that I have two correspondence bundles;
    40        both of them have quite a lot of loose documents in.  It
    41        would be extremely helpful -- they are up here -- if
    42        someone could take them away and give me one
    43        correspondence bundle with what I need in it.
    44
    45        There is absolutely no urgency.  I have not really been
    46        referred to any of the correspondence so far, and it may
    47        be some time before I am.  But what I would like is one
    48        complete bundle.
    49
    50   MR. MORRIS:  We are not aware of what is going in the 
    51        correspondence bundle, except that a couple of times 
    52        things we thought would be in there were not.  I do not 
    53        know what the actually policy is on this.  Should every
    54        item of correspondence go in the bundle?
    55
    56   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I suggest is Mrs. Brinley-Codd or
    57        Mr. Hill, or someone deputed by them, makes one bundle
    58        which they want me to have, then perhaps it could be
    59        handed to you before it comes up to me and you can see
    60        exactly what is in it.

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