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     1        a day, which may make the difference between finishing the
     2        advertising witnesses this week and not finishing them next
     3        week, at the moment.  That is all.
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     5   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, can I make one other observation which I
     6        hope may help?  The first reference in the second file,
     7        which is the one containing the references outside
     8        Miss Dibb's paper, is the Fat Book.  I would encourage the
     9        Defendants to tell Miss Dibb not to bother about that,
    10        because I am almost certain I am not going to make any
    11        reference to it.  Reference 9, which is about Belgian food,
    12        is another little book.  They can borrow it if they wish
    13        but, again, it is not something to which I am intending to
    14        make any reference.
    15
    16   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The first thing to find out, you see, which
    17        you do not even know yet, is the degree of Miss Dibb's
    18        familiarity (if any) with the actual documents.  If she is
    19        very familiar with them and can give you ready responses to
    20        any questions you ask about them, you may find you are in
         fact ready to call her some time tomorrow afternoon.  If it
    22        is more difficult than that, I will listen sympathetically
    23        to your request that she not start until Friday morning, or
    24        whenever.
    25
    26   MR. MORRIS:  Can the Plaintiffs put a note in to Sue Dibb to the
    27        effect that they will not be referring to numbers 1 and 9,
    28        so that she does not have to look at those ones.
    29
    30   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  She may want to look at them.  For all I
    31        know, there may be something in it which she may like to
    32        rely on.  But just to the effect that it is not anticipated
    33        that the Plaintiffs will refer to those.
    34
    35   MR. MORRIS:  Just one more point is that, when we served
    36        documents on the Plaintiffs that Miss Dibb had identified,
    37        there is one document that was not copied and put into the
    38        file, which was the Department of Health Eat Well Pamphlet,
    39        which I presumed would be in there.  I have made a copy for
    40        yourself.  If I can hand it to you now, because it is not
         in the file.
    42
    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Shall I put that right at the back of
    44        Miss Dibb's references, again, before Miss Gallatley?
    45
    46   MR. MORRIS:  You could do. I have actually put it at the front
    47        of the files that have been disclosed to the Plaintiffs.
    48
    49   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I will put it there for the time being.
    50 
    51   MR. MORRIS:  It will be A, before number 1. 
    52 
    53   MR. RAMPTON:  I wonder could I have one?
    54
    55   MR. MORRIS:  I have got one.  There may have been an oversight
    56        by the Plaintiffs that it was not copied.
    57
    58   MR. RAMPTON:  I do not see why it is the Plaintiffs' obligation
    59        to copy Defendants' documents.   It is no oversight, at
    60        all.  The fact is that I do not have one and I would like