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     1        one notices that your Lordship is away anyway on the 13th
     2        and 14th.
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     4   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  They are the 14th and 15th.  I meant to point
     5        that out.  The dates are the 14th and 15th and I can sit on
     6        the morning of Thursday, 14th.
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     8   MR. RAMPTON:  Excellent.
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    10   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  So, it is the afternoon of the 14th and the
    11        whole of the 15th which should be crossed out.  I will take
    12        the five minute break there in any event.
    13
    14                       (Short adjournment)
    15
    16   MR. MORRIS:  Can I just go back a bit?  Are we still dealing
    17        with the schedule or can we deal with that later on at some
    18        time?
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    20   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, we were only dealing with the schedule,
         as I understood it, because I gave leave for you to recall
    22        Dr. North which prompted Mr. Rampton to look for dates when
    23        it might be convenient to recall him.
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    25   MR. MORRIS:  Right.  I have a summary -----
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What is the point you are -----
    28
    29   MR. MORRIS:   The point I was going to make is that, if I can
    30        find it, there was a pleading on the whole issue of
    31        residues, pesticides, and that pleading, the granting the
    32        amendment, was left over until we sorted out.
    33
    34   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Have you actually got it with you now?
    35
    36   MR. MORRIS:  I cannot find it.
    37
    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Look, can I make a suggestion?  Find it at
    39        your in your own time, but now you have actually got
    40        Dr. North's new report, give a bit of thought to the way it
         is expressed because I do not know whether you still want
    42        your amendment in the form you were considering then or in
    43        some other form.
    44
    45   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
    46
    47   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Presumably, when you drafted that you did not
    48        have Dr. North's new report on pesticide residues?
    49
    50   MR. MORRIS:  That is correct.  We were prepared to argue it at 
    51        that time on the grounds the evidence had already been in 
    52        the case, but you just felt it was better to wait. 
    53
    54   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  All I am suggesting is that you have another
    55        look at it in the light of the fact that you expect
    56        Dr. North to give evidence in accordance with his recent
    57        report.
    58
    59   MR. MORRIS:  Sorry, I am just trying to sort out my papers.
    60        Just on the last subject of the schedule, just to say again