Day 254 - 22 May 96 - Page 02

     
     1                                        Wednesday, 22nd May, 1996
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     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I have found my complete copy of the World
     4        Health Organisation Report, and it was in orange 4 right at
     5        the very back.
     6
     7   MR. MORRIS:  Right.
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     9   MR. JUSTICE BELL: For future reference, there were 24 word
    10        references for Dr. Arnott to which number 25 "ready" and
    11        number 26 "The WHO Report" were added.
    12
    13   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, Dr. Arnott is here if I may recall him.
    14
    15                     Dr. Sidney Arnott, Recalled:
    16                      Examined by Mr. Rampton QC:
    17
    18   MR. RAMPTON:   My Lord, what we have done is we have put Dr.
    19        Arnott's new report behind his earlier one in a new tab 12
    20        of yellow 5.  We have put behind that the two papers which
         were at tabs 7 and 8 of Professor Naismith's file, which
    22        are the two papers referred to in Dr. Arnott's further
    23        report.
    24
    25        Dr. Arnott, can I ask you what you in front of you, please?
    26        A.  My medical report.
    27
    28   Q.   You have your medical report.  There should be a file
    29        there, and I would like you to look back a bit just to
    30        identify a couple of papers.  If you first, please, take
    31        your further report, just glance at it.  It should be about
    32        12 pages long, is it, 11 and a half, ends on page 12?
    33        A.  Yes, that is correct.
    34
    35   Q.   Have you made that report for the purpose of these
    36        proceedings?
    37        A.  Yes, I have.
    38
    39   Q.   Are you content that that report should stand as your
    40        evidence-in-chief in this case?
         A.  Yes, I am.
    42
    43   Q.   Thank you.  Can you just look, please, at page 3, the third
    44        paragraph.  You have written:
    45
    46        "One particularly important study appears in the New
    47        England Journal in February 1996."
    48
    49        At the back of that file you should find a paper from the
    50        New England Journal of Medicine dated 8th February 1996 by 
    51        Hunter and others, many others, headed: "Cohort Studies of 
    52        Fat Intake and the Risk of Breast Cancer, A Full Analysis"; 
    53        is it there?
    54        A.  Yes, it is.
    55
    56   Q.   Is that the paper to which you refer in your latest report?
    57        A.  Yes, it is.
    58
    59   Q.   Then, if you would not mind, please, turn to page 6 of your
    60        latest report.  In the second paragraph, you write: