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1 MR. RAMPTON: They will be McDonald's people.
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Right. And notify -- when will you be able
4 to tell Ms. Steel and Mr. Morris who you propose -----
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6 MR. RAMPTON: I am not going to speak for Mrs. Brinley-Codd
7 because when I do I get blowing up, but I would hope that
8 we would be able to do it at the early part of next week.
9 We are going to go back now and have a planning meeting
10 when we have finished in court. It will obviously take
11 some enquiries of McDonald's to find who would be available
12 for those days, but I would hope we would have a list
13 available by some time at the beginning of next week.
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15 MS. STEEL: We raised this earlier in the week: We have serious
16 problems with preparing the legal argument and the
17 packaging thing all for the week after next, particularly
18 all the more so if Miss Dibb gives evidence on Monday and
19 Tuesday. We have a lot of material that we have to look
20 through for the argument on nutrition, which is going to
21 take a considerable amount of time and we have also to get
22 advice, obviously. To prepare for several different
23 witnesses on packaging the following week, having had a
24 break of several months, I just do not think we are going
25 to be able to do it properly. So, we would prefer it if
26 the space that would otherwise have been taken by
27 Mr. Bateman was preparation time.
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, we will stick to what I have said, except
30 what I will do is I will give a lay day after the argument
31 and we will start the recycling and waste witnesses on
32 Thursday, 24th. If we finish all the legal argument on the
33 Monday that gives you Tuesday and Wednesday. If we take
34 Monday and Tuesday on the legal argument, you have
35 Wednesday anyway. I really cannot see that it is going to
36 take more than two days. So, you can expect that in
37 addition to any time between now and the beginning of the
38 legal argument you will have a clear day on the Wednesday.
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40 MS. STEEL: OK, right.
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I want you to remember what I said about --
43 you will have to explain to Miss Dibb in your own words; it
44 sounds as if she is not entirely unprepared for it,
45 especially if she said that she was prepared to come,
46 although she may not, as it turns out, feel well enough --
47 if she is not even well enough on Sunday evening to come,
48 she does not have to come here, as it were, on her sick bed
49 to explain herself. You must come and say. But I want her
50 to come, if she possibly can, and see how she feels on
51 Monday morning.
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53 MS. STEEL: OK.
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55 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I think we would certainly accept a note
56 from the doctor saying that, in his opinion, she ought not
57 to give evidence.
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59 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If she goes to see her doctor tomorrow or
60 over the weekend and, whatever, she is feeling brave but he
