Day 117 - 27 Apr 95 - Page 44
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2 MR. MORRIS: It may be none of the documents will be used in
3 cross-examination and that will be no problem.
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It may be?
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7 MR. MORRIS: It may be none of the documents will be the ones we
8 intend to use in cross-examination.
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If you think you may want to, get them over.
11 If there are other documents which are not going to be used
12 in cross-examination get them over as soon as possible, but
13 the ones which you may want to put to Mr. Nicholson, you
14 may not have decided but the ones you may want to put to
15 Mr. Nicholson get over to Barlows tomorrow.
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17 MR. MORRIS: It is not our intention not to give them to the
18 Plaintiffs, delaying tactics. We have just handed the
19 Plaintiffs all of our Anne Link references regarding
20 chlorine in packaging.
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Anyway I have said what I wanted to say in
23 relation to that. Is there anything else you must mention
24 today?
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26 MS. STEEL: Just while I think of it, there have been a couple
27 of mentions of closing speeches and I think sometime ago
28 you mentioned about some document, I cannot remember what
29 it was but advice on closing speeches or something.
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do not bother about that yet. We will come
32 back to that comfortably sometime before the end of the
33 long summer term, that is after Whitsun but before the end
34 of July.
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36 MR. MORRIS: We do intend to make a formal application that our
37 closing speeches come second first.
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. I am not at all attracted by that at
40 the moment, not only because I do not see any reason why
41 what is the ordinary order of speeches should be changed
42 because you are litigants in person; no other case in which
43 I have been involved with litigants in person has there
44 been a change. In any event, I want to want to hear from
45 you as soon as possible on some important things like where
46 you have not pleaded it just what you say the meaning is of
47 various things and what you say you actually can justify,
48 and things of that kind.
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50 So, quite apart from the normal procedure, I am positively
51 keen to hear what you have to say as soon as possible and
52 not after Mr. Rampton has addressed me.
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54 MR. MORRIS: Yes. I think there may be a difference between
55 going through the meanings and going through the evidence.
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57 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, it is not just meanings. It is what
58 among the great amount of evidence we have heard you
59 actually say at the end of the day is relevant to something
60 which is an issue in the case and how you say it is. With
