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     1        succinctly, "We are on this topic".  Then I can make some
     2        kind of judgment as to whether it is relevant or not.
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     4   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
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     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Because I do not want to have unnecessary
     7        confrontations about it, but at the end of the day it is my
     8        judgment on what is relevant which has to carry the day.
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    10   MR. MORRIS:  I hope, when I was asked today, I did provide -----
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    12   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let us leave today.  When we start again on
    13        Monday morning make sure you are in a position to do that
    14        if you are asked.
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    16   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, may I come back to the point I started
    17        with, which is Wednesday 23rd and Thursday 24th November
    18        which I see as being a convenient return point for
    19        Professor Crawford if we do not need Mr. Bateman.  Your
    20        Lordship will recall the only reason we got Mr. Bateman was
         that the Defendants' original witness -- I think her name
    22        was Vicky Carroll -- raised a whole lot of matters
    23        unpleaded in the defence in relation to the supposed
    24        environmental hazards of paper making.  That is what
    25        Mr. Bateman is for.
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    27        She, I gather, has now been dropped in favour of Mr. Theo
    28        Hopkins, who offers nothing on paper making but appears to
    29        know something about, what one might call, old forests.  If
    30        that is the position that the line of country ploughed by
    31        Miss Carroll is now no longer part of the Defendants' case,
    32        then I will abandon Mr. Bateman.  That will create a hole
    33        of two days for Professor Crawford.  I say it now, because
    34        obviously if that is to be the position, then the
    35        Defendants will need to notify Professor Crawford as soon
    36        as possible, he no doubt being the leading man.
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    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think, before I offer any comment on that
    39        or ask the Defendants if they can help, I will read Miss
    40        Caroll again.  Who was the second witness?
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    42   MR. RAMPTON:  Theo Hopkins he is called.  He is their new forest
    43        witness.  He is, as it were, the counter part to
    44        Mr. Mallinson, I think.
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    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  We will resume at 10.30 on Monday.
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    48            (The court adjourned until Monday 31st October)
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