Day 313 - 13 Dec 96 - Page 32
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2 MR. MORRIS: I have some various bits and pieces but I am sort
3 of filling in while Helen-----
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not want you to fill in, we have past
6 the stage where this trial needs any filling in.
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8 MR. MORRIS: No, these are all important points I wanted to
9 make.
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You have enough experience, you know you can
12 ask me and we break off. Now if you need time to consider
13 something of a bit earlier, but I need you to tell me what
14 more you have to address me on, because you have dealt with
15 some matters of law; you have dealt with counterclaim, so
16 far as I can see; you have dealt with damage, very shortly
17 but that is understandable, and from my aspect those are
18 the matters that you are entitled to speak on from this
19 morning onwards.
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21 MS. STEEL: I have got a few more bits of law. Some of them do
22 repeat a little bit what I said the other day but hopefully
23 I can hand them up and then do not need to read them out.
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25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am not going to be too strict about that,
26 but they must be legal points which have really been
27 provoked by what was in Mr. Rampton's written submissions,
28 or something he said along the way.
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30 MR. MORRIS: Yes. We are going to say something about damages
31 in general the Plaintiffs are seeking.
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33 MS. STEEL: There is a bit about the law on malice that we want
34 to deal with.
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36 MR. MORRIS: I think that we are confident... I do not know how
37 long Mr. Rampton needs. We are pretty confident-----
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not know. I may have to ask some
40 questions about the law. It seems to me you have got to
41 pretty near the end of what you have to say. I will
42 adjourn now and I will come back at ten to two.
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44 MR. MORRIS: Can we say, it might be beneficial to have to two
45 o'clock. I tell you why. One thing we are hoping to do
46 over lunch, if we get a chance, is to identify what in the
47 leaflet is fact and which is comment, we say, which is a
48 job that we needed to have done by today and we have not
49 had a chance to do yet. But we are hoping to do that over
50 lunch.
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. I would like you to be fairly brief
53 about that. You need not finish this afternoon. If you
54 do, well and good. Mr. Rampton may wish to reply on
55 certain matters you have raised. I would like to hear what
56 you have to say, apart from anything else, Mr. Rampton, in
57 relation to the part which article 10 plays, if any, in
58 this case.
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60 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, I have prepared for that.
