Day 306 - 26 Nov 96 - Page 15
1 so far as publication is concerned. It is quite right,
2 when I originally said -- not on the Monday before last, or
3 rather the Monday before that, I think it may even have
4 been the Monday before that -- how many days you had for
5 each, I may well have said something about if you took less
6 on one topic that would give you time to take more on
7 another. Certainly, I said something to that effect at
8 some stage. But that only makes sense if you have some
9 idea yourself how you were going to go about things.
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11 So, what I am going to do is rise for five minutes. If you
12 ask me in a moment not to come back until quarter past
13 twelve, I will readily do that, but when I do come back I
14 want you to tell me how you propose to set about the rest
15 of what you have to say on publication, and all that you
16 have to say in relation to counterclaim, subject to
17 anything which you anticipate you may put in written form
18 to be delivered by midday on Wednesday 18th. But I want
19 you to tell me how you would propose to set about saying
20 the rest of what you have to say about publication, and
21 anything which you wish to say on the counterclaim so as to
22 finish by the midday adjournment on Thursday, so I can do
23 what I firmly intend to do, which is hear what Mr. Rampton
24 wants to say by way of introduction to his written
25 submissions on Thursday afternoon.
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27 Now, how long do you want to talk that over between you?
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29 MS. STEEL: If we had a couple of extra minutes, or something.
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, I will come back just after quarter
32 past.
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34 (Short Adjournment)
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36 MS. STEEL: Mr. Morris is going to carry on for now, then I am
37 going to move on to 16th October. Some other bits and
38 pieces that I have got to finish off after that, and we do
39 expect to be finished on publication this afternoon and
40 then to move on to the counterclaim. I mean, if there is
41 time this afternoon; if not, first thing tomorrow morning.
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43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I will allow you to go on with publication
44 now. You anticipate finishing this afternoon, but you must
45 finish this afternoon.
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47 MS. STEEL: Right.
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49 MR. JUSTICE BELL: And that will leave you one and a half days,
50 which should be enough, after all, it is between six and
51 seven hours in actual fact, to deal with counterclaim, but
52 you must finish what you have to say on counterclaim by one
53 o'clock on Thursday.
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55 MR. MORRIS: Just a couple of points. I think Brian Bishop did
56 not leave me out of his notes of 20th September, but I have
57 got a note saying that... I think I did refer to it, that
58 he originally was saying that he could only remember me at
59 one meeting. So any impressions that he was giving were
60 based upon his recollection based upon one meeting, but in
