Day 269 - 25 Jun 96 - Page 93


     
     1        a day, Mr. Rampton?
     2
     3   MR. RAMPTON:  No.
     4
     5   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think you should turn up with Mrs. Tiller
     6        and one other on Friday.  You do not need to give Mr.
     7        Rampton notice.  If you can tell him on Thursday afternoon
     8        or Mrs. Brinley-Codd who it is, well and good.
     9
    10   MR. MORRIS:  If we cannot get anyone for Friday we could finish
    11        shall off reading the Civil Evidence Act s.
    12
    13   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You can finish off reading your Civil
    14        Evidence Act witnesses, but you have not got much to do and
    15        they can be fillers at any time.  So do your very best to
    16        have get another witness and have them fixed for days next
    17        week because I do not want to put any pressure on you about
    18        your own evidence.  But if we find that, if I find I have
    19        got an empty day, I must now really will be very tempted to
    20        say to you, "Now, are you going give evidence?  If so,
    21        start now," and the same to Mr. Morris in due course.  I
    22        have put him after you for the reason I gave only, that he
    23        is the second on the title of the suit.
    24
    25   MS. STEEL:  Yes.
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  So, if for any reason and I am not going to
    28        enquire into it but if for any reason you do want to call
    29        your publication witnesses before you give evidence
    30        yourself, you have got to have them ready.
    31
    32   MS. STEEL:  There is a couple of things I wanted to raise in
    33        relation to that.  Actually about Friday, I might be wrong,
    34        but I thought the Plaintiffs have said a couple of times
    35        they have got some legal argument that they wanted to bring
    36        up as well.  So I do not know what the situation is with
    37        that.
    38
    39   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Well, if Mr. Rampton says he has an
    40        application to make, then if there is time I will hear it.
    41        If there is not time I will say and plan a time to hear it
    42        just as I did when you made your applications.
    43
    44   MS. STEEL:  OK.  The other things is before we get in the
    45        witness box, we wanted to ask about, kind of ground rules
    46        for what questions Mr. Rampton is entitled to ask us in
    47        terms of, you know, how far can he ask us personal question
    48        and things about our politics and things like that, in
    49        order that we can get legal advice because obviously when
    50        we are up in the witness box it is going to be very
    51        difficult to know when we object or how we object or what
    52        we are entitled to object to.
    53
    54   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Well I really cannot, I am afraid I cannot do
    55        that in advance.  If during your evidence Mr. Rampton asks
    56        you a question and you turn to me and say: "Do I have to
    57        answer that?" Then I will do my best to deal with it.  If
    58        you manage to have a McKenzie friend in Court while you are
    59        giving evidence, subject to anything Mr. Rampton says,
    60        because you are in a peculiar position of representing

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