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1 my life in a courtroom.
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We will wait and see. Can I say one thing?
4 Was there anything else you wanted to say, Mr. Rampton?
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6 MR. RAMPTON: I wanted to pass up a copy of the letter which
7 your Lordship had this morning on which Mrs. Brinley-Codd
8 has marked in Mr. Style's reference where the various
9 documents should be put. She wants it back afterwards,
10 please, later on. On Monday, or something.
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12 MR. MORRIS: I am not saying we will not be finished in a day on
13 Monday, but I think you can assume that.
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15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let us wait and see. One thing which
16 occurred to me, which might help me as you go through
17 cross-examination and might help you yourselves when you
18 have to come to think about what you are going to say at
19 the end of the case, is if you divide your
20 cross-examination up into topics, or at least know what
21 particular topic you are on. I do not just mean rearing
22 and slaughter topics, but a topic within that, because if,
23 at the end of the day, when you come to make a speech, one
24 of the ways you do it -- or I urge you to do it -- is think
25 of the facts which you want to establish. That is just
26 another way of saying a topic upon which you are going to
27 address me and which you have a point of view on or say
28 I should make a particular finding on. That would
29 certainly help me with witnesses who cover a number of
30 topics. If I am not quite sure where you are going, you
31 can say, "Yes, this is the topic I am on". That is only a
32 suggestion. We will resume at 10.30 on Monday morning.
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34 (The court adjourned until 13th February 1995)
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