Day 197 - 07 Dec 95 - Page 35


     
       1      or not.
       2
       3      But there are certain things, looking back with hindsight,
       4      that obviously we should not have been doing, but the
       5      pressure was always there to achieve the figures, hit the
       6      targets, be profitable and, therefore, you cut performance
       7      to achieve that aim.  That is the really the way of
       8      summing it up.
       9
      10 MR. MORRIS:  We have no further questions.
      11
      12 MR. RAMPTON:  Can I just say this, since I will probably not
      13      start cross-examining now until 2.00, I am not at all
      14      certain that I shall finish this afternoon.
      15
      16 MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I was going to ask what the -- I do not
      17      think you should feel under any pressure as to time.
      18
      19 MR. RAMPTON:  No, because I will be asking Mr. Coton to look at
      20      quite a lot of documents, I am afraid.
      21
      22 MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I wanted to ask now because of the witness
      23      who otherwise would be coming up from Wales.
      24
      25 MR. RAMPTON:  That is why I mentioned it now because it would
      26      not be sensible for her to come in readiness for anything
      27      much before 2 o'clock tomorrow.
      28
      29 MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Is there any point in bringing her up at
      30      all?
      31
      32 MR. RAMPTON:  Probably not, because I am sure -- I will not
      33      then feel under any pressure.  If I know there is a
      34      witness waiting in court, inevitably, one feels one has to
      35      hurry along a bit.  If we finish with this witness
      36      mid-day, then there is always something else we can do,
      37      I am sure.
      38
      39 MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I suggest you do, Ms. Steel, is call
      40      off your witness.  Make some arrangement with her for
      41      another date which is convenient with her or get one or
      42      two dates from her and we will fit her in on a date which
      43      is convenient to her.  But tell Mrs. Brinley-Codd some
      44      time in advance in case there is a question of McDonald's
      45      calling any other witness whose evidence relates to her
      46      evidence.
      47
      48 MS. STEEL:   I do not have a burning desire to call her
      49      urgently, it was because we wanted someone to fill -----
      50
      51 MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, you only did it in response to my
      52      request to find a witness for tomorrow. 
      53
      54      We will adjourn now.  I would like to deal with the
      55      question of calling of any further witnesses on behalf of
      56      the First and Second, well, it is really the Second
      57      Plaintiff in relation to Colchester as soon as possible
      58      and definitely before we go away at the end of this term.
      59
      60 MR. RAMPTON:  Yes.

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