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1 MS STEEL: Defendants' witness statements.
2 MR. MORRIS: It is the blue one.
3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: He is in bundle 1, section J or section H.
4 MR. MORRIS: There were also two other things served on --
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5
MR. JUSTICE BELL: I will put that behind Mr. Gardner's
6 original statement.
7 MR. MORRIS: He says it supplements his statement, so you may
want to put it in front of that? It supersedes all the
8 previous statements.
9 MR. RAMPTON: Would your Lordship like some dividers?
10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, that would help.
11 MR. MORRIS: There were two other things served by the
defendants on Friday following receipt of counterclaim of
12 the further and better particulars of the counterclaim, or
before that: A letter regarding Robert Beaver's further
13 testimony which I do not have with us. I thought it would
be brought today, but it could be brought tomorrow,
14 presumably. Basically, you said we should write to the
solicitors and say what information we would like him to
15 bring. There is very little time before the summer break
for him to give evidence, so we suggested the first week
16 after the break he could come back. I think that was the
same, I think we suggested Paul Preston as well for the
17 first week after the break -- get them out of the way.
18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: While you are mentioning that, if one of the
things you still say should be discovered any statistics
19 in relation to accidents to employees, as opposed to
children falling over and so on, I would like you to give
20 a little bit of thought to that and so that before the end
of term you can ask me about that, and in order to help me
21 in relation to any application you want to make, renewed
application for those statistics, I would like you to find
22 for me (because it saves me time) where I ruled on it
before.
23
Secondly, I think Mr. Rampton said something in his
24 opening -- I may have got the context wrong -- about
making allegations about accidents but only coming up with
25 a certain number. That may be a complete mis-remembering
on my part, but if Mr. Rampton did say something like
26 that, I would like you to turn that up. In fact he may
find it himself. I may find it by the time you make any
27 application. I have just something in the back of mind
that there was some comment like that made.
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MR. MORRIS: The other thing we served was our fourth
29 supplementary list of documents on nutrition of which we
did not bring you a copy. We thought you would get a copy
30 today from the plaintiffs but it -- it has been done
today.
