Day 269 - 25 Jun 96 - Page 93
1 a day, Mr. Rampton?
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3 MR. RAMPTON: No.
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think you should turn up with Mrs. Tiller
6 and one other on Friday. You do not need to give Mr.
7 Rampton notice. If you can tell him on Thursday afternoon
8 or Mrs. Brinley-Codd who it is, well and good.
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10 MR. MORRIS: If we cannot get anyone for Friday we could finish
11 shall off reading the Civil Evidence Act s.
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13 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You can finish off reading your Civil
14 Evidence Act witnesses, but you have not got much to do and
15 they can be fillers at any time. So do your very best to
16 have get another witness and have them fixed for days next
17 week because I do not want to put any pressure on you about
18 your own evidence. But if we find that, if I find I have
19 got an empty day, I must now really will be very tempted to
20 say to you, "Now, are you going give evidence? If so,
21 start now," and the same to Mr. Morris in due course. I
22 have put him after you for the reason I gave only, that he
23 is the second on the title of the suit.
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25 MS. STEEL: Yes.
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: So, if for any reason and I am not going to
28 enquire into it but if for any reason you do want to call
29 your publication witnesses before you give evidence
30 yourself, you have got to have them ready.
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32 MS. STEEL: There is a couple of things I wanted to raise in
33 relation to that. Actually about Friday, I might be wrong,
34 but I thought the Plaintiffs have said a couple of times
35 they have got some legal argument that they wanted to bring
36 up as well. So I do not know what the situation is with
37 that.
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Well, if Mr. Rampton says he has an
40 application to make, then if there is time I will hear it.
41 If there is not time I will say and plan a time to hear it
42 just as I did when you made your applications.
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44 MS. STEEL: OK. The other things is before we get in the
45 witness box, we wanted to ask about, kind of ground rules
46 for what questions Mr. Rampton is entitled to ask us in
47 terms of, you know, how far can he ask us personal question
48 and things about our politics and things like that, in
49 order that we can get legal advice because obviously when
50 we are up in the witness box it is going to be very
51 difficult to know when we object or how we object or what
52 we are entitled to object to.
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Well I really cannot, I am afraid I cannot do
55 that in advance. If during your evidence Mr. Rampton asks
56 you a question and you turn to me and say: "Do I have to
57 answer that?" Then I will do my best to deal with it. If
58 you manage to have a McKenzie friend in Court while you are
59 giving evidence, subject to anything Mr. Rampton says,
60 because you are in a peculiar position of representing
