Day 063 - 07 Dec 94 - Page 30
1 ranges.
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3 Q. But if you had wanted ---
4 A. There could have been various reasons for that.
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6 Q. -- them to supply the packaging would they not continue
7 doing that?
8 A. It depends; if they do not want to produce a packaging
9 or if it is a small item for them, they are not really
10 specialised in it and another company is specialised in it,
11 they are generally able to give a much better price, for
12 instance.
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14 Q. So the main reason would be for price, would it?
15 A. I could not tell you; it would probably be one of the
16 reasons.
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: He says he does not know.
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20 MR. MORRIS: No further questions.
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22 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, what I would like to do, with your
23 Lordship's leave -- I do not what your Lordship wants to do
24 this afternoon; whether your Lordship intends to sit or
25 not, but if not, then it might take me just a bit past
26 1 o'clock -----
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The choice is this basically, either we
29 adjourn when Mr. Van Erp's evidence is completed or we can
30 go back to dealing with some of the procedural matters; in
31 some ways I would prefer the former. It would give you,
32 apart from anything else, the opportunity, if you choose to
33 take it, of going back over your remaining
34 cross-examination of Mr. Oakley and getting that as well
35 ordered as you possibly can, quite apart from being able to
36 use the time on anything else you want to prepare. I think
37 we will have time to deal with all the other ancillary
38 matters and, having looked again at the two experts from
39 Strathclyde and at Mr. Gonzales, I have become rather more
40 firm that we should be satisfied with Mr. Gonzales, but
41 there we are.
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43 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, there is no problem with that.
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45 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No. That is before the end of term. Is
46 everyone content that we complete Mr. Van Erp and then we
47 will adjourn for the rest of the day?
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49 MR. RAMPTON: I would be grateful to your Lordship. I promise
50 I will not go much beyond ten past one.
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, thank you.
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54 Re-Examined by Mr. Rampton
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56 MR. RAMPTON: (To the witness): Can we just take this bundle of
57 documents? I am not going to go through it. I have
58 noticed in going through it that it is only a proportion of
59 your suppliers that complied with your request to specify
60 if they knew it post-industrial or post-consumer so far as
