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1 there are bound to be loose ends and if one concentrated on
2 tying up all the loose ends the case would never finish at
3 all.
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5 MR. RAMPTON: I am not, I hope your Lordship would accept, one
6 to worry about little loose ends of any kind at all. They
7 just go by the board.
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9 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Ms. Steel and Mr. Morris, is Professor
10 Crawford, did you say, away in the States?
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12 MS. STEEL: He is going this weekend, I think it is. He has not
13 gone yet.
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15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. Were you hoping that he would do a
16 supplemental report before he went?
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18 MS. STEEL: I am hoping, but I am not 100 per cent sure it will
19 come before he goes.
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21 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No.
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23 MS. STEEL: Obviously, we will try and get it as soon as
24 possible.
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26 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Well, there we are.
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28 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, can I mention just a few interlocutory
29 matters, not to be dealt with now, but I mention them now
30 so they do not get lost. Mr. Atkinson is doing, or has
31 done, the list of authorities about legal professional
32 privilege and waiver and that will be with us tomorrow. We
33 have no objection to the Defendants' proposed amendment on
34 Brazil. I say that, making the observation that it is a
35 pleading and a mere pleading.
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I will give leave for that then.
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39 MR. RAMPTON: I do not need to say anything about it at all.
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41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I will try and remember to do is -- I do
42 not think we need reword process tab No. 1 -- what I will
43 do is I will insert the fax of your letter you sent me in
44 the abstract of pleadings. I have already marked where you
45 wanted to put it in in the abstract as it is at the moment.
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47 MR. MORRIS: Thank you.
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49 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, the next thing is at some stage before --
50 I know I have mentioned this before and I am doing it again
51 because I know everybody forgets about them -- at some
52 stage we do need to refine what the position is in relation
53 to what we have loosely called "the computer documents",
54 because there may need to be rulings from your Lordship
55 about those. It may be that a lot of work will have to be
56 done on both sides providing strict proof according to the
57 attitude adopted by the parties respectively and there is
58 not that much time left. We wrote to the Defendants the
59 early part of this year giving them our lists and
60 suggesting they respond by 16th April. As I said, I think,
