Day 165 - 27 Sep 95 - Page 40


     
     1   MR. MORRIS:  No.
     2
     3   MS. STEEL:  No.
     4
     5   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  We will put Mr. Mehigan in the 16th.  How
     6        long should we allow for him?
     7
     8   MR. MORRIS:  I really do not know.  I mean, I think two days
     9        would be reasonable.  He represents -----
    10
    11   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I will say that I do not anticipate being
    12        more than certainly not as much as a morning; my usual sort
    13        of two hours, I would guess.  That would leave a day and a
    14        half for cross-examination which I certainly think is
    15        reasonable in the circumstances.
    16
    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let us put Mr. Mehigan through to Tuesday
    18        17th.  How can we fill Wednesday 18th or at least part of
    19        Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th?
    20
    21   MR. MORRIS:  I am not sure how to fill those days.
    22
    23   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Could Mr. Fairgrieve come back during that
    24        time?
    25
    26   MR. RAMPTON:  I do not know.  Whatever solution can be found to
    27        avoid what I call completely unnecessary blank days, I will
    28        try to find.  Certainly those would be two of them and so
    29        would be two or three of the days in the half term
    30        week.   I will ask about Fairgrieve, my Lord.
    31
    32   MS. STEEL:   The only problem is if witnesses start coming in on
    33        other issues it does mean that we need time to read through
    34        all the papers relevant to them and the transcripts.
    35
    36   MR. RAMPTON:  Then, in view of that, I think, my Lord, if I may
    37        say so, the Defendants should find some evidence for 18th
    38        and 19th.
    39
    40   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I would like you to do, I have put a
    41        question mark on Wednesday 18th and I have put a question
    42        mark in the 19th.  I have not put anything in on Monday or
    43        Tuesday, 9th or 10th.  I am prepared, unless Mr. Rampton
    44        wishes to say anything on the matter, to leave those for
    45        any roll-over which there might be from the week before or
    46        as preparation days.  Preparation in your case now
    47        obviously not only involves preparing yourself for
    48        cross-examination but organising the attendance of your
    49        witnesses.
    50 
    51        So you have two days there, but what I would like you to 
    52        do, because the 18th is three weeks away, is see if you can 
    53        find one or more of your witnesses who relate to evidence
    54        which will by then already have been called whom you could
    55        call on 18th and 19th.  I am not going to make any
    56        suggestion whatsoever as to who it should be, but it is
    57        three weeks away.  What I would like you to do is see if
    58        you can fill that time for us with employment evidence.
    59
    60   MR. MORRIS:  Right.

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