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     1        that are available.
     2
     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I do not propose to make any order.  I am
     4        content to rely on what I treat as Mr. Rampton's assurance
     5        that normal expedition will be used in trying to find the
     6        documents -- if, indeed, they exist.
     7
     8   MR. RAMPTON:  And in serving witness statements.  We have spent
     9        an enormous amount of time on this; we are going to spend
    10        the whole of next week on it.  We will do it as soon as we
    11        possibly we can.  It is in everybody's interest that we
    12        should.
    13
    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    15
    16   MR. MORRIS:  The last thing we wanted to bring up, I believe --
    17        before we move off discovery, regarding the Fairgrieve
    18        discovery, we have had a letter from Mrs. Brinley-Codd this
    19        morning.  So we will have to consider that.
    20
    MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That is going on, is it?
    22
    23   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, that is going on.  Mrs. Brinley-Codd is
    24        dealing it and, once again, she will deal with it in her
    25        usual expeditious fashion.
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think that is all that Mr. Morris is
    28        saying.  He is just informing me that he has had a letter
    29        about it.
    30
    31   MR. MORRIS:  Richard North:  we have disclosed a statement
    32        regarding the implications of Preston and E.coli in
    33        general.
    34
    35   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let me read that now. (Pause)  Yes.
    36
    37   MR. MORRIS:  I got this in the early hours of this morning as a
    38        final interim report.  That was one half of what I believe
    39        we were expected to do.  The other half was related to
    40        pesticides matters.  He says that he is working on the
         pesticides matter for next week.  That is really just -----
    42
    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What do you suggest about that?  It appears
    44        to me that if he is actually working on it now -- I will
    45        hear what Mr. Rampton has to say -- but if I am minded to
    46        allow him to develop his evidence on pesticides, I should
    47        put a date on when any report from him to that effect
    48        should be served on the Plaintiffs' solicitors.  As I have
    49        said to you before, that should help you rather than hinder
    50        you, because your expert witness knows what the deadline 
    51        is. 
    52 
    53   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  I will not object to that, because I think it
    54        might help him to concentrate his mind.
    55
    56   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What do you say, Mr. Rampton?
    57
    58   MR. RAMPTON:  I am entirely in your Lordship's hands.
    59        I entirely agree that the date must be set because, when
    60        I get it, if I think anything of it, then I will have to go