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     1        will answer the interrogatories as directed by your
     2        Lordship.  There is a judgment which tells us what it is
     3        that we have to do.
     4
     5   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, I remember now.  It seems to me it is
     6        desirable to put some date on the decision.  The last thing
     7        in the world I am sure anyone wants to do is come to
     8        employment and find, when the evidence is heard, there are
     9        loose ends which have to be investigated which are going to
    10        take time to follow up.
    11
    12   MR. RAMPTON:  I will see when employment first rears its head --
    13        21st February on my chart.  If it started on 21st February
    14        and we called everybody (which is a question to which, of
    15        course, we are giving very serious consideration), we
    16        should not finish our evidence on employment until 5th May.
    17          So there is, in fact, plenty of time.  At the moment
    18        these witnesses -- I think I told your Lordship before; if
    19        I have not, I do now -- are not listed in any particular
    20        order.  All we have done is write them down as we thought
    21        of them on a piece of paper.  So, one should not take
    22        Friday, 10th March as being the day on which, if we called
    23        her, Eva Marie Sasche will be called.
    24
    25   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Might I suggest that either the Defendants be
    26        informed that it is proposed to call Mrs. Sasche or they be
    27        given an answer to the relevant interrogatories by Friday,
    28        13th January, which is the third day back in the new term.
    29
    30   MR. RAMPTON:  Mrs. Brinley-Codd asks if we could have to the end
    31        of the week after that, simply because that week ending
    32        13th is the first week back, the official week back, and
    33        there will be a quite a lot to do during that week.
    34
    35   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  That would give you nearly two months
    36        or nearly a month before we actually start employment which
    37        itself looks as if it will take some time.
    38
    39   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, that is fine.
    40
    41   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It means that whoever drafts the answer to
    42        interrogatories has the vacation to do it in, rather than
    43        loading on top of whatever else they are doing this term,
    44        and should give you enough time.  That would seem fair to
    45        me, if you knew either that she was being called or had the
    46        interrogatory by Friday, 20th January.  I will make a
    47        direction to that effect.
    48
    49        Is there anything more you want to say about Eva Marie
    50        Sasche? 
    51 
    52   MR. MORRIS:  No. 
    53
    54   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What about John Cook?
    55
    56   MR. MORRIS:  We are just checking his statement.  We basically
    57        want him to be called as a witness.  He has made a
    58        statement.  He is, what you might call, central to one of
    59        the main issues on employment which is relations with trade
    60        unions in the USA.

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