Day 292 - 01 Nov 96 - Page 02

     
     1                                         Friday, 1st November 1996
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     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Let us just have a couple of minutes talking
     4        about the timetable before you start on recycling and
     5        waste.  What is the position as you see it?
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     7   MS. STEEL:   Well, we have got a list, although I have not got
     8        any copies of it, of the issues that we have still got to
     9        cover, and who is going to be dealing with them.  In terms
    10        of how long each issue will take to sum up, we do not
    11        really have any very good idea, because never having done
    12        closing speeches before, we have not got anything to go by
    13        on how long it is going to take.
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    15        For example, I expected to take two days on summing up the
    16        rearing and slaughter of animals, but it actually took four
    17        days.  I think, you know, part of the reason it is taking
    18        such a long time is because we are not ready, because of
    19        the overwhelming amount of paperwork in the case, not just
    20        the transcripts of the evidence but all the, however many,
         30,000 or so pages of documents and statements there are as
    22        well.
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    24        So I can tell you which issues we are planning to do next
    25        and who will be doing them, and then it gets a bit more
    26        fluid in terms of, sort of, after the next three issues, in
    27        terms of which issue is going to come after that.
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    29   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Tell me that.
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    31   MS. STEEL:   Obviously, Dave is going on to packaging and environment/index.html">litter
    32        today.
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    34   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   I have called it recycling and waste because
    35        that is the divider in the abstract, but that is what it
    36        is?
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    38   MS. STEEL:   Yes.  Well, whatever it is called, the
    39        environmental effects of the matters of packaging.
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    MR. JUSTICE BELL:   You can call it what you like.  I just want
    42        to make sure ----
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    44   MR. MORRIS:   It is the same issue.
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    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  ---- it covers all we have got on recycling
    47        and waste.
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    49   MR. MORRIS:   Yes.
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    51   MS. STEEL:   The intention is to go on to food poisoning, which
    52        Dave is also doing.  Then I will probably do advertising
    53        after that, the effects of advertising on children, and
    54        others, for that matter, general advertising.  Then after
    55        that it does got a lot more fluid, and it is either going
    56        to be nutrition, which I will probably do, or employment
    57        conditions, which Dave will probably do, finishing off with
    58        publication, counterclaim and then obviously there is legal
    59        argument.
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