Day 162 - 25 Jul 95 - Page 15

     
     1   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I am really not going to attach anything like
     2        the weight to what someone has said, when they cannot be
     3        tested in cross-examination -- it is hearsay, anyway, and
     4        strictly inadmissible -- when I have had a number of
     5        witnesses (including witnesses called by you) swearing to
     6        tell the truth and then giving quite detailed evidence.
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     8   MR. MORRIS:  We will leave it there for the moment.
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    10   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
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    12   MR. MORRIS:  No further questions.
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    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Thank you.
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    16   MR. RAMPTON:  I have no re-examination.
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    18   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Thank you, Miss Anteneh.
    19
    20                         (The witness withdrew)
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    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I propose to do now is to give my ruling
    23        on the applications to amend, and then we will see if there
    24        is anything further we can usefully do.  I have had it word
    25        processed, and I will ask Mr. Riley if he would be kind
    26        enough to hand out copies.  I do, in fact, propose to read
    27        out my ruling in this instance.  I think it is better to do
    28        so, although it will take a little time to do so.  (Handed)
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    30                  (See separate transcript for ruling)
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    32   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Now, are there any other matters which we
    33        should or can usefully deal with today?
    34
    35   MR. RAMPTON:  No, my Lord, I would not have said so.  It is
    36        really a question of how your Lordship would like to start
    37        next term.  The Defendants have amendments, or may have
    38        amendments, in relation to soya, pesticide and hormone
    39        residues, some alleged food violations in the United
    40        States, some employment violations.  They have, or may
         have, an application to strike out some part of the claim
    42        in relation to nutrition.  There is an argument about an
    43        allegedly privileged document.
    44
    45        Those are matters of substance, but, beyond that, one would
    46        go on with the evidence, we to complete our employment
    47        evidence, which we have not quite done.  Then there are
    48        unfinished witnesses of various kinds, and, my Lord, we
    49        will want, if we can get it a good time before the
    50        beginning of next term, a schedule of the Defendants' 
    51        employment witnesses as well.  I really do not know how 
    52        your Lordship would care to deal with it. 
    53
    54        There is one other matter which I should attend to now --
    55        I will mention it in case I forget -- Mr. Morris mentioned
    56        the other day that he had the transcripts of the uncut
    57        interviews of "One Every Mile".  We should like to have
    58        that, please, or have those, please, by way of discovery.
    59        We will obviously make a copy ourselves.
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