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     1        Centre.
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     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
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     5   MR. MORRIS:  Park Crescent.
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     7   MR. RAMPTON:  This may be none of my business, I am not quite
     8        sure, but I do not know whether it is right to suggest that
     9        Mr. Glen might also speak to the London Borough of
    10        Haringey.  Somebody has to speak to them, I suppose, at
    11        some stage or maybe Mr. Morris' solicitor can do that?
    12
    13   MR. MORRIS:  I am very unhappy with direct contact with the
    14        other party, because ----
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    16   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, I do not think it is.  What I will ask
    17        Mr. Glen to do when he telephones your solicitor, not that
    18        I doubt the account you have given, but ask her whether the
    19        London Borough of Haringey made any formal objection to the
    20        matter going off to the 8th or 9th August.
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    22   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  I mean, the dates were fixed, were suggested.
    23          What happened was that the hearing closed, the judge left
    24        and that was the end of it, and the parties went to fix the
    25        earlier possible dates.  The original dates were the 8th
    26        and 9th August, and then someone from the listings office
    27        came back 20 minutes later, before the people had left the
    28        building, and said, "Well, there is May 2nd and 3rd".  So
    29        that was the way it was put.  8th and 9th August was the
    30        original time and they said, "Well, there is a window on
    31        the 2rd and 3rd May".  So that is how it happened.
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    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
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    35   MR. MORRIS:  There was no contact between the parties after
    36        that.
    37
    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Have you actually approached any of your
    39        nutrition witnesses for organising their return if they
    40        have given evidence, or that they come afresh, for instance
    41        in the case of Miss Brofy or Professor Crawford what is the
    42        situation there?
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    44   MS. STEEL:   We have not approached them yet.  The Court of
    45        Appeal did say something about that we could bring up about
    46        whether or not there should be evidence on heart disease or
    47        whether or not it was needed, but we have not got a
    48        transcript yet and I have not got an exact note of what was
    49        said.  But that was something that we were intending to
    50        raise, when we get that.  I do not know whether they take 3 
    51        weeks in ---- 
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    53   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  They can take quite a long time.  I would not
    54        wait for the transcript.
    55
    56   MR. MORRIS:  We are talking about the transcript of the Ruling.
    57        Maybe if the Plaintiffs can help.
    58
    59   MR. RAMPTON:  I do not have a note.  I have a recollection which
    60        is in effect this.  That Hirst LJ.  with the agreement of
 
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