Day 110 - 29 Mar 95 - Page 25


     
     1   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I suggest you do, if you know the answer
     2        now you can tell me; if you say, well, you would just like
     3        a day or two to think about it, I think you should try to
     4        tell me by the end of the week.
     5
     6        But what is really being suggested at the moment is that on
     7        the afternoon of Wednesday, 26th, we continue with
     8        Mr. Nicholson on employment topics only.  Even though he is
     9        restricted to employment and not publication, I would be
    10        prepared to say:  "Well, you need not start cross-examining
    11        him until Monday, 1st May".  You will have to cross-examine
    12        him then in relation to employment but not publication.
    13
    14        That may finish before the end of that week, which will
    15        give you more time before, as the proposal is, Mr. Beavers
    16        is called on Tuesday, 9th.  If you finish cross-examining
    17        Mr. Nicholson on employment before the end of Friday, 5th,
    18        you have some time at the end of that week.  You have
    19        Monday, 8th, to help your preparation for Mr. Beavers.
    20
    21        As we are going along through the week beginning Monday,
    22        1st May, we can discuss what the timetable is looking like
    23        then.  Mr. Fairgrieve can start later in the following week
    24        which gives you time to get back to him and his schedules
    25        and graphs and so on.  I have not really concerned myself
    26        beyond that at the moment.
    27
    28   MS. STEEL:  Can I just say what Mr. Rampton said was actually
    29        not right.  Our only concern was not about not having
    30        publication.  This is relevant to the fact that when a
    31        schedule goes in front of you, it does tend to become
    32        fairly fixed.  On the last occasion that we discussed
    33        timetabling, we did actually say that we did not want to
    34        start again on 26th.  That was something we raised
    35        yesterday.  As far as I can remember, you said that you
    36        would leave a decision on that until we came back to it,
    37        and had some kind of draft timetable in front of us.
    38
    39   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I came back to it yesterday because it seemed
    40        pretty clear to me that we were not going to need to run
    41        into the week beginning 10th.  In fact, we may finish
    42        before the end of next week.  So, what it looked to me that
    43        you were getting, you were getting each one of the three
    44        days we would have otherwise sat at the end of this term
    45        added to the Easter vacation as extra time.
    46
    47        It is entirely a matter for you whether you take a rest
    48        immediately or carry on working for a while.  That is
    49        entirely your own business.  But we have three days added
    50        to the Easter vacation in any event.  We are starting about 
    51        a day late because of other obligations of mine.  I thought 
    52        it better that we start straightaway and I think it should 
    53        give you enough time but, in any event, i am prepared to
    54        say that you should not cross-examine Mr. Nicholson, as
    55        I have said more than once now, until Monday, 1st May when
    56        all that seems to me to give you sufficient time to be
    57        ready.
    58
    59   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord ----
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