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     1        purpose outside of the actual conduct of the case in court.
     2
     3   MR. RAMPTON:  Or the fair reporting of it or whatever.
     4
     5   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  But there is no problem about this, is
     6        there?
     7
     8   MR. RAMPTON:  None at all.
     9
    10   MS. STEEL:  It is Mr. Rampton who is making a big problem out of
    11        nothing, basically.
    12
    13   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Ms. Dibb, if you have been given a copy of a
    14        document which is a document disclosed in the case, and
    15        which has not actually been read out in full in court,
    16        I would be obliged if you would just keep it in your own
    17        possession with a view to using it, until you are told
    18        otherwise, only in answering any question you are asked in
    19        the witness box.  Do you understand?
    20
    THE WITNESS:  I do understand.
    22
    23   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Was there anything else before we just have
    24        any discussion which we may usefully be able to have about
    25        Ms. Dibb's return?
    26
    27   MR. RAMPTON:  The position at the moment is, as your Lordship
    28        knows, Mr. Mallinson is due on Monday.  He could come back
    29        on Wednesday, if required, but in view of the fact that
    30        I am not going to be asking him any questions in-chief, it
    31        may be -----
    32
    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think we will just have to wait and see
    34        whether he is required to come back on Wednesday.
    35
    36   MR. RAMPTON:  At the moment Tuesday morning 29th is a blank with
    37        Professor Ashworth in the afternoon.  It might be, I do not
    38        know, that there will be some space at the end of the week
    39        following because at the moment we have still not been told
    40        what witnesses the Defendants are calling on recycling and
         waste and, if so, when.
    42
    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What is the best estimate you can give of
    44        cross-examination of Ms. Dibb because, if it is likely to
    45        be more than half a day, then it would be much better that
    46        she came back on what was otherwise a clear day, so she
    47        only returns once, would it not?
    48
    49   MR. RAMPTON:  Of course, it would.  Did I do half an hour this
    50        afternoon or slightly longer? 
    51 
    52   MS. STEEL:  An hour. 
    53
    54   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    55
    56   MR. RAMPTON:  The morning session is two and a half hours, the
    57        trouble is there is quite a lot to read.
    58
    59   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That is why I had my doubts about it with the
    60        best will in the world -- do you have a suggestion?