Day 201 - 15 Dec 95 - Page 10

     
     1        and get evidence of my own; so, the sooner the better.  But
     2        one has to be realistic.  If Mr. North is going to be
     3        working on it next week, then, I do not know, maybe a
     4        fortnight from now we could have it.  I do not know.  It is
     5        entirely a matter for your Lordship, but I am sure it would
     6        help if there was a deadline.
     7
     8   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I suggest is, I direct that any further
     9        report -- before I actually give any direction, do you have
    10        anything to say about the E.coli report?
    11
    12   MR. RAMPTON:  Again, I have only just glanced at it.  It has
    13        only just been given to me.  Two things strike me at first
    14        glance -- and I do not want to make this my final word on
    15        the subject.  The first is that it does not really add
    16        anything to what he has already said; secondly, if I were
    17        the tribunal of fact, it would cause some considerable
    18        irritation, because it purports to decide the sort of
    19        questions -----
    20
    MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Well, I know.  Maybe I am not as easily
    22        irritated as you.  Everybody wants to tell the judge how to
    23        do his own job.  I am just prepared to ignore that.
    24
    25   MR. RAMPTON:  I am grateful.  I admire your Lordship's
    26        patience.  There is quite a lot in that that has nothing to
    27        do with expertise at all.
    28
    29   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Subject to that, if in so far as -- it looks
    30        as if Mr. North is going to come back; I will deal with the
    31        other matter first -- that any further report to deal with
    32        the question of pesticide residues should be served by the
    33        Defendants on the Plaintiffs by not later than Friday,
    34        5th January.  I am just working out the date.  I should put
    35        that behind Mr. North, should I?
    36
    37   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, please.
    38
    39   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just so that I can clear my own desk a bit,
    40        I have in front of me a letter dated 15th December 1995,
         which is addressed to Ms. Steel and looks to me as if it is
    42        the letter about Mr. Fairgrieve's discovery.
    43
    44   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, that is just for your Lordship's
    45        correspondence file.
    46
    47   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Where do I put the documents which appear
    48        behind it?
    49
    50   MR. RAMPTON:  I do not know whether those documents are not 
    51        already in the file.  If they are not, it is yellow file 5, 
    52        which is the nutrition file. 
    53
    54   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I will put them somewhere behind
    55        Mr. Fairgrieve.
    56
    57   MR. RAMPTON:  Your Lordship may find, on looking, that a number
    58        of them are already there.  I do not know.  (Pause) It is
    59        tab 3, my Lord.
    60