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     2   MS. STEEL:   I have not got the letters with me.  But,
     3        basically, as I recall, the evidence that there is
     4        available to the court at this stage is the reference in
     5        the transcripts from day 77 about: "At that time -- and
     6        I am speaking from memory -- I think Braslo was buying meat
     7        from Anglo."
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     9   MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is Mr. Walker, is it?
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    11   MS. STEEL:  That is Mr. Walker.
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    13   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I have got that.  Give me the page.
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    15   MS. STEEL:   It is on page 79, line 1.  I have not got the
    16        letters with me, as I say, but, as I recall, one of them
    17        implies something about extending the business, but it is
    18        like ambiguously worded.  But maybe if you could check the
    19        letters again?
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    21   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I mean, I am asking these questions because
    22        I was reading them only yesterday morning.
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    24   MS. STEEL:   Right.  Unfortunately, I think they were documents
    25        that were served late.  They are not in the bundles we have
    26        in court.
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    28   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I have very much in mind the bit of evidence
    29        you have referred to from Mr. Walker, and I have in mind
    30        the letter; and they, I have to say, do not seem to me at
    31        the moment to amount to any evidence worth the name that
    32        Braslo did actually take meat from them.
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    34        It is 25 in divider 4, behind Mr. Walker's statement; and
    35        he is writing to Mr. Morganti, and he says he is safely
    36        back in England: "....and thank you.  I sincerely hope that
    37        your business with Anglo develops and you obtain the
    38        extended credit which you want and which will help
    39        McDonald's price."
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    41   MS. STEEL:  I would say -----
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    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That is back in '83.
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    45   MS. STEEL:  "I sincerely hope that your business with Anglo
    46        develops" could be taken as an implication that there was
    47        already something there which they were developing.
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    49   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  I will bear it in mind, and I will bear
    50        in mind Mr. Morganti's evidence as to just where Sadia, and 
    51        then Braslo, got their beef from.  What I am doing, I am 
    52        not chasing you on it; I just want to make sure there is 
    53        nothing else in the evidence which I have overlooked.
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    55   MS. STEEL:   I cannot remember anything offhand.
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    57   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No.
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    59   MS. STEEL:   If I could just say that during the argument on the
    60        day I was not here, Mr. Rampton did say that if we made an
 
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