Day 195 - 04 Dec 95 - Page 73


     
     1        and find out?
     2
     3   MR. MORRIS:  We have not received anything from the Plaintiffs
     4        yet in terms of any further documentation or indication
     5        about what any further witnesses ----
     6
     7   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That does not answer my question.
     8
     9   MR. MORRIS:  No, I understand that.  I just cannot say unless
    10        I contact him really.  As I say, he does not live in
    11        London.
    12
    13   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you have a phone number for him?
    14
    15   MR. MORRIS:  I do.
    16
    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I will tell you why.  How long is Mr. Coton
    18        likely to last?  You have got his statement and I can see
    19        that rather than read out your notes in what I will call
    20        the further and better particulars, you might want to ask
    21        him about that.
    22
    23   MR. MORRIS:  I did not propose to read out the statements of all
    24        the witnesses, because it might be good to put them in
    25        front of them and ask them to flip through and say, "Do you
    26        agree with that, Simon Gibney's statement which he has
    27        basically averred?"
    28
    29   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Quite frankly, I would not do that.
    30
    31   MR. MORRIS:  Obviously, with the notes I would have to ask him
    32        just to put it into sentences.
    33
    34   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  He is not going to take more than an hour or
    35        so in his evidence-in-chief, is he?
    36
    37   MR. MORRIS:  I do not know.  I would have thought on the second
    38        statement that on my notes it might take a little bit
    39        longer, but if the court seems to be moving towards
    40        finishing him off in half a day or something, then we
    41        can ----
    42
    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No.  If he could complete his evidence in
    44        half a day, so much the better, but I am not driving
    45        necessarily at that.  What I am thinking is if he does not
    46        finish in half a day, let us suppose he starts on Wednesday
    47        a 2 p.m., at the moment he will not run very far into
    48        Thursday, so we have -- I do not know, Mr. Rampton, if that
    49        is so or not?
    50 
    51   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I will a wee bit longer with him than 
    52        I was with Mr. Alimi. 
    53
    54   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I understand that.
    55
    56   MR. RAMPTON:  It is not a day's cross-examination.  That is
    57        quite clear on my instructions.
    58
    59   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What crosses my mind is if it were possible
    60        to start him tomorrow afternoon, he is unlikely to go

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