Day 187 - 13 Nov 95 - Page 46


     
     1        Lordship has just said, and if Ms. Steel gets four days at
     2        the end of this term when we do not sit, this imaginary or
     3        hypothetical schedule is obviously realistic.  Quite when
     4        the missing days -- by that I mean the missing employment
     5        witnesses -- will be heard I do not know.
     6
     7        Your Lordship will see that I have given Mr. Chester a
     8        scheduling from the 19th February to the end of the month;
     9        that is two weeks.  I know that he can manage those dates.
    10        I have called him provisionally.  Certainly he could not,
    11        on this basis, come any earlier than that.  That was not
    12        for his convenience, but that is because the employment
    13        evidence will still be eking out its last breath, even into
    14        the middle of February.  I have allowed a week for
    15        preparation for the rainforest issue, notwithstanding that
    16        there are now going to be probably four weeks off at
    17        Christmas and the week immediately preceding Mr. Chester.
    18
    19        I would like to have him there, if I possibly can, and
    20        I will call my Costa Rican witnesses when he has finished.
    21        Beyond that, I have done nothing more than to put in
    22        outstanding people from different topics, including -- and
    23        again this, I suppose, is provisional -- the girl, Vicky
    24        Watkins, and the possibility of Dr. Mark Paterson in
    25        response to her at the end of March; also Mr. North, who is
    26        another provisional, I suppose.  Then the 15th to 19th
    27        April nutrition witnesses again, who (if any) will depend,
    28        I suspect to some extent, on your Lordship's ruling on the
    29        meaning in that area of the case.
    30
    31        I have allowed two weeks for our publication witnesses
    32        because, I think, there are seven or eight of them, and a
    33        week for the Defendants' publication witnesses and then it
    34        ends up with the Defendants.  I put a query after the 24th
    35        May because they may not finish in two weeks.
    36
    37   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, thank you very much.
    38
    39   MR. RAMPTON:  I have given your Lordship -----
    40
    41   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The benefit of it is it gives some realistic
    42        estimate of when the evidence might end, whatever the
    43        detail is along the route.
    44
    45   MR. RAMPTON:  That is right.  These actual day schedulings are
    46        completely imaginary, apart from the ones I have underlined
    47        and Mr. Chester.
    48
    49   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    50 
    51   MR. RAMPTON:  A word about Miss ---- 
    52 
    53   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you know what the terms are when the --
    54        the summer is essentially one long 15 week term now plus
    55        the week which is what we used to call the Whitsun week.
    56        Do you know when that first half of seven weeks ends, when
    57        that break is?
    58
    59   MR. RAMPTON:  No, that I do not know.  I know we start again, I
    60        think, on the 15th April after Easter.  What I do not know

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