Day 105 - 16 Mar 95 - Page 57
1 education as you conduct the case, your own experts, that
2 is.
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4 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I would only say this -- with respect,
5 I believe it is an excellent idea that the Defendants
6 should now ask Mr. North questions which, perhaps, they
7 should have asked him long ago, but there it is -- if he is
8 going to expand on his existing evidence, then in fairness
9 I ought to have advance notice of it.
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Try to do that but we will leave it there for
12 the moment. You do not have to accept what Mr. Bennett has
13 said.
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15 MR. MORRIS: No, we do not necessarily accept it at all.
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think, if I may say so, I suspect you are
18 working under the handicap that you do not actually know at
19 the moment what Mr. North may say about this -- I will not
20 ask you -- it is none of my business, but if that is the
21 situation, I think it would be a good idea to find out,
22 that is all.
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24 MR. MORRIS: We are just seeing what we have left.
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26 MR. JUSTICE BELL: How much longer do you think?
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28 MR. MORRIS: We think we may be able to finish today. We are
29 just trying to -----
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Would it be a help or a hindrance to that if
32 I rose for something like 10 minutes so you could get
33 yourself organised to continue? If rising for 10 minutes
34 makes a difference about not finishing, I will not do; If,
35 in fact, it will help you to get organised, I will.
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37 MR. MORRIS: It may be helpful, maybe 10 minutes, yes.
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39 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, would your Lordship say I can have five
40 or 10 minutes at the end? I do not want Mr. Bennett to
41 have to come back tomorrow.
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43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I will do, again I will sit on for as
44 long as is necessary tonight, subject to someone being very
45 inconvenienced.
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47 MR. RAMPTON: I know, my Lord, but I am always conscious that
48 the Defendants -- this is not a criticism but it is a fact,
49 an historical fact -- bat out time -----
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51 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not think they are doing that. The
52 reason I have offered this is -----
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54 MR. RAMPTON: I am only saying this, I am only conscious that
55 sometimes I have felt that in order to get a witness away
56 -- it might be a Defendant's witness and it might be a
57 Plaintiff's witness -- I am a bit constrained with my
58 re-examination sometimes. There are two or three matters
59 of technical information which, it is my belief, as matters
60 presently stands, your Lordship might actually benefit from
