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.