Day 165 - 27 Sep 95 - Page 32


     
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     2   MR. RAMPTON:  I will tell your Lordship in a moment how the
     3        discussion has developed.  It has not gone very far.  There
     4        is no criticism of anybody in that, if I may say so.  As
     5        your Lordship sees from that, the interlocutories have been
     6        more or less accurately estimated.  Tomorrow there is
     7        Mr. James Atkinson.  One would hope that he could finish in
     8        a day and a half because there is no sitting on Friday
     9        afternoon.  Monday morning is Mr. Tindale who is short.  He
    10        only deals with one remark made, I think, by Anne Tobin in
    11        her evidence.  Then a day and a half for Sean Richards who
    12        answers what Mr. Logan has to say about Bath.  Then there
    13        is Rose French who deals with Mr. Krana has to say about
    14        West Ealing.  Then on Friday -- I hope it is only one day
    15         -- there is Annette Hall who is now, in fact,
    16        Mrs. Norris.  She prefers to go by her married name.  So
    17        one could perhaps substitute "Norris" for "Hall".  She
    18        ought to be a short witness because she deals only with
    19        Melanie O'Riordan's accident at Epsom.
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    21        Then my Lord, and this is where I feel some embarrassment
    22        (only to a limited extent but still some embarrassment)
    23        simply because I do not yet know which ones they will be,
    24        it is our intention to call some witnesses from France on
    25        Monday and Tuesday to deal with the allegations made by
    26        Hassen Lamti and the girl Villeneuve-Gallez.
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    28        I should say, which I am sure your Lordship already
    29        understands, that our intention to call witnesses from
    30        France as, indeed, witnesses from Canada and Ireland,
    31        springs directly from the notice we had on 31st August in
    32        the first place and then on, I think, 18th September that
    33        the Defendants intended to call as live witnesses certain
    34        of their witnesses who had been listed as Civil Evidence
    35        Act witnesses only.
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    37        We were notified on 31st August that Monsieur Lamti and
    38        Mademoiselle Villeneuve-Gallez would be giving evidence in
    39        court.  At that point we activated ourselves to see what,
    40        if any, witnesses we could bring live from France to answer
    41        what they had to say.
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    43        I will, as soon as humanly possible, serve the statements
    44        of the French witnesses; I hope it will not be after the
    45        beginning of next week.  In fact, Mr. Morris has told us in
    46        a letter, I think, of 18th September that he cannot or does
    47        not want to call his two French witnesses before 15th/16th
    48        November which is a long time after our French witnesses
    49        are intended to give evidence.
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    51   MR. MORRIS:  That is 13th to 15th November. 
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    53   MR. RAMPTON:  Sorry, I got the dates wrong, 13th to 15th
    54        November, about which I make no comment; if that is the
    55        date they can do, that is the date they can do.  If they
    56        have to be slotted into our evidence on some other or the
    57        same topics, so be it.  I rather suspect that may be the
    58        case because I suspect by then we may have started on
    59        rain forest, but no matter.  I observe in passing, for
    60        example, although it was a single topic, that Mr. Lipsett

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