Day 087 - 10 Feb 95 - Page 02

     
     1                                      Friday, 10th February, 1995.
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     3   MR. MORRIS:  I just wanted to sort out some outstanding
     4        documents to serve.  The Theo Hopkins references and -----
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     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Where should they go?
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     8   MR. MORRIS:  I suggest, really, for all our documents they go in
     9        our new files with separators for the various issues.
    10        I think if we do that for the rest of the case that would
    11        be the most efficient system really.
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    13   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I am sorry, I have not been listening to
    14        what Mr. Morris was saying because I was attending to
    15        something else.  Mrs. Brinley-Codd tells me that, in fact,
    16        what she has done is to create new files, as the Defendants
    17        have spilled out documents or we have during the course of
    18        the case, for each topic, so that the latest one relates to
    19        food poisoning and rearing and slaughtering, for example.
    20        With that in mind, it is obviously more convenient for
    21        everybody if they have the documents filed under topic
    22        heads.  That is an example.  Bundle III of the Defendants'
    23        new documents relates to packaging, for example.  The
    24        sensible thing -----
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    26   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let me just have a look.  Yes, I see.
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    28   MR. RAMPTON:  If there is a document about trees for the moment,
    29        at least, arguably it would most conveniently go into that
    30        file.
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    32   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think that would be convenient in case
    33        Mr. Morris has any objection because, for instance, bundle
    34        IV which  -----
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    36   MR. MORRIS:  We have no objection to that.
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    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, that is nutrition.  There might
    39        reasonably be further documents which will come which will
    40        go into that when we come back to it.
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    42   MR. MORRIS:  The only thing with that is, I think that is a good
    43        system to have, if you like, a new file for any new
    44        documents that arrive, but the only thing is that obviously
    45        some things are sort of now passed and most of the
    46        documents have been served, for example, nutrition, so we
    47        would not need a large file.
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    49   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, may be.  The one I have it in at the
    50        moment is a thinner binder, but if on the documents you are 
    51        concerned with at the moment, the first vacant tab is 13, 
    52        if I just wrote on the facing page there "13 T. Hopkins' 
    53        references", then I can put it straight in there now, could
    54        I not?
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    56   MR. MORRIS:  The first ones are Mr. Hopkins' references at the
    57        back.  They are numbered 1 to 21, then No. 22 actually is
    58        an addendum to his statement.  So, really, that should go
    59        behind his statement but, unfortunately, I have numbered
    60        them now 1 to 35 of these documents.