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1 and a bit of notice for the McDonald's people, but when
2 your Lordship thought it right to deal with those
3 outstanding matters is entirely a matter for your
4 Lordship. After employment is finished, perhaps, is one
5 possibility.
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7 My Lord, I hope your Lordship will not mind, I am not going
8 to try and see any further into the future than that. We
9 have some rainforest witnesses to be brought from abroad,
10 both Costa Rica and the United States. Plainly, my Lord,
11 the more notice we have of the approximate likely date for
12 the beginning of the rainforest topic, the better from the
13 point of view of those witnesses and the smooth conduct of
14 the case.
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16 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I would like all parties to do,
17 obviously having considered the matter together, if
18 possible -- if that is not possible, each side have their
19 own separate estimates -- is some kind of idea of how long
20 the remainder of the evidence is likely to last. It need
21 not be done witness by witness, but if each side can set
22 down on a bit of paper when they expect the blocks of
23 evidence, doing the best they can to estimate times, will
24 be ----
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26 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I believe we should certainly do that
27 before the end of this term as best we can.
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. I would like that before we finish
30 sitting this term.
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32 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I would too. Of course -- and this is
33 not meant in any derogatory way at all -- it is a fact
34 everything, in one sense, hinges on who the Defendants in
35 the end call as employment witnesses. I have a degree of
36 uncertainty about that myself at the moment certainly.
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38 My Lord, then next on my agenda was -----
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40 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Are you asking me to give any indication or
41 ruling about you not calling anyone, for instance, from
42 Canada or France at the moment?
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44 MR. RAMPTON: No, I am not. I am inviting the Defendants to
45 tell us as soon as possible whether they are calling Sarah
46 Ingliss as a live witness and whether they are calling the
47 two French people as live witnesses. If they say "yes,
48 they are", and they, with respect to Mr. Morris, say it in
49 a way which convinces us that they mean it, then we will
50 get about finding live evidence ourselves.
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52 My Lord, I do not know whether the sort of letter which we
53 have provided before, and I am sure there are some of those
54 left in the Defendants' possession, might go to those
55 witnesses abroad; that written confirmation letter.
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57 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just to go back for a moment to the
58 transcripts and CaseView; what is it proposed my position
59 should be?
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