Day 094 - 01 Mar 95 - Page 76


     
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     2   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I might put those behind Ms. Hovey's
     3        statement.
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     5   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, my Lord, that would do very well.
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     7        Finally this, my Lord:  You will remember that Mr. Walker
     8        produced what he called, or I called, shipping documents
     9        relating to the Brazilian beef in 1983/4.  They have now
    10        been put in the correct order by McKey's and there is with
    11        them an explanatory letter from Mr. Walker to
    12        Mrs. Brinley-Codd.  I am not suggesting it is evidence, but
    13        it does enable one to understand the documents.
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    15   MS. STEEL:   I have one document which I got last night which
    16        Mr. Riley very kindly copied today.  It is in relation to
    17        something that Dr. Gomez Gonzalez said yesterday.  So,
    18        I might ask him about it tomorrow.
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    20   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you want to hand up a copy of that now?
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    22   MS. STEEL:  Yes.
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    24   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I will do is I will read all of these
    25        documents overnight, just out of interest.
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    27   MR. RAMPTON:  They will not take very long.
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    29   MS. STEEL:   Perhaps if Mr. Dr. Gomez Gonzalez could read that
    30        overnight?
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    32   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Is there anything else tonight?
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    34   MR. RAMPTON:  Not as far as I am concerned, my Lord, except
    35        again if there is a risk that Dr. Gomez Gonzalez will not
    36        finish tomorrow, so be it -- I hope that he would do -- but
    37        what is urgent is whether I know that there is going to be
    38        so much run over that I need to put Mr. Bowes off.
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    40   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Mr. Morris was hopeful that he would finish
    41        tomorrow.  So, what I suggest is that if you decide to put
    42        him off, there will be no criticism from me but if, on the
    43        other hand, you are prepared to hold on to him until lunch
    44        time at least tomorrow, it would certainly be much
    45        appreciated by me if you can finish tomorrow and especially
    46        if you can finish in time to let Mr. Rampton re-examine.
    47        But even if there is a bit left over there might be
    48        sufficient of Friday to make Mr. Bowes worthwhile.  If you,
    49        Mr. Rampton, decide to put him off, then we they go back to
    50        some loose procedural ends on Friday. 
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    52   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, put it like this, if by lunch time 
    53        tomorrow -- I will not put him off at the moment -- it is
    54        apparent that the Defendants have another two hours or so
    55        on Friday morning, I will probably put him off because
    56        otherwise he is going to be cut in half again.  If, on the
    57        other hand, they finish or are likely to finish tomorrow
    58        evening -- at the moment I have only twenty minutes or half
    59        an hour's re-examination -- then I would suggest that he
    60        came down and started round about 11 o'clock.

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