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1 MR. RAMPTON: He does not work in London. He lives in the
2 country and that is where his being is. He does not work
3 in London. He had to come up and spend the night in
4 London, and that is what has done.
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6 MS. STEEL: As I understand it, he works for Kings
7 Investigation Bureau in London.
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9 MR. RAMPTON: No, he does not.
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: There is no point arguing about it. I mean,
12 it is just too bad if people -- I have sympathy with
13 Mr. Russell, but if he has to travel up to London and he is
14 not heard, it is -----
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16 MR. RAMPTON: All I am saying is, I do not understand what the
17 problem is about finishing both Mr. Pocklington and
18 Mr. Russell today.
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20 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I think we should do is press on now.
21 I think if we can dispose of the rest of the argument, if
22 we can finish Mr. Pocklington and, if Mr. Russell is short,
23 we can do that. Then, if that has taken virtually all the
24 day and you want some time, I listen to you if you
25 say, "Can we not start until 2 p.m. on Monday", or
26 something like that, so you can have Monday morning dealing
27 with your application for leave to appeal and doing some
28 more sorting out, and then we will carry on with inquiry
29 agents on Monday afternoon and Tuesday.
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31 I will take Mr. Professor Crawford out anyway from Monday
32 and Tuesday, because I think better all round if you get
33 your additional statement out. If there is something from
34 Mr. Cannon, if you can get that out as well.
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36 MR. MORRIS: Mr. Cannon says he is going to send a draft over
37 today by courier to the court.
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is something else you might be able to
40 deal with, make sure you have it straight by 2 p.m. on
41 Monday. I will not take Mr. Gravett or Miss Laporte out of
42 Tuesday the 25th and 26th. You can tell me where they are
43 going to go, if Professor Crawford is in those two days.
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45 But what I would like you to do is concentrate very hard on
46 getting through what argument you want to put now, getting
47 through Mr. Pocklington as expeditiously as possible and
48 then, hopefully, we can have Mr. Russell as well.
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50 MS. STEEL: OK.
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Then that would be convenient, so far as I am
53 concerned, because we would not start again till 2 p.m. on
54 Monday. I would very much hope to give my judgment as soon
55 as we come back then, whether it is first thing on Monday
56 or 2 p.m. on Monday. It is subject to the fact that I am
57 duty judge all this weekend. So we will just have to see.
58 We might finish Mr. Clare on Monday afternoon and Tuesday,
59 subject to any consequences of my ruling on further
60 discovery.
