Day 267 - 21 Jun 96 - Page 70
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2 MS. STEEL: Right.
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4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If the situation is that you will then call
5 such and such a witness, if you are going to call Mr.
6 Gravett, or Miss Lapport, or Miss Tiller or any of the
7 others, come what may so far as the result of the Appeal is
8 concerned, then you should have them, someone organised for
9 the Friday. So supposing that the decision in the appeal
10 is given on Thursday, we can go straight on with someone.
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12 MS. STEEL: Right.
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14 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think, Mr. Rampton, you are going to have
15 to be ready to cross-examine whoever it is as far as
16 publication is concerned.
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18 MR. RAMPTON: I am already in that condition. So I am not
19 fussed who it is.
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21 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Without any particular notice as to who it
22 is.
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24 MR. RAMPTON: I am quite content. I do not even mind if it is
25 the defendants themselves. I am ready for anybody.
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Well, that is your option as well. If you
28 choose to, either of you, give evidence starting on the
29 Friday, then well and good. But we must be able to go on
30 with someone always assuming that the Court of appeal has
31 given its decision.
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33 The other thing Mr. Morris, it should not take you
34 very long. I would like you to come on Monday please with
35 your list of the witnesses you want to read. Put down in
36 the order in which you would propose to read them, and the
37 reason for that is that I will know who to get on reminding
38 myself of and Mr. Rampton will know who to consider in case
39 there is any objection to reading any parts. He will know
40 who is at the top of the list, who is second and who is
41 third and so on. So that if a gap of more than
42 half-an-hour or so appears at the end of the day or before
43 a midday adjournment, you do not ask me for time to do
44 something else. We can go straight on and use the time
45 with a bit of reading. Is there anything else?
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47 MR. RAMPTON: There is one other thing I would like to mention.
48 I have mentioned it before on several occasions. We have
49 written to the defendants about it before and recently. It
50 is the London Greenpeace Minute Book and it may very well
51 be it no longer exists. I do not know, but they have not
52 responded to any of our requests for discovery in that
53 regard and it important for this reason amongst others that
54 whatever the decision of the Court of Appeal, the question
55 of whether London Greenpeace and antiMcDonald's campaign
56 was continuing in 1990 will remain an issue in the action
57 because a decision of the Court of Appeal will not affect
58 that and, my Lord, there is a reference to it.
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60 MS. STEEL: Nobody is denying it existed at the time.
