Day 142 - 26 Jun 95 - Page 66


     
     1   MR. RAMPTON:  For next week?  Of this week?
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     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, next week.
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     5   MR. RAMPTON:  That is what I thought your Lordship said.
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     7   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  What that will mean is, if Mr. Morris
     8        is correct in his estimate, there would be whatever
     9        remained of Thursday and Friday for him and Ms. Steel to do
    10        some extra preparation, having the day before on Wednesday
    11        provided a list of the topics which they consider to be
    12        outstanding, from which one could tell which ones they
    13        wanted to deal with now and which are postponed until
    14        later.  They would have Friday as well as any time they
    15        chose to put to it over the weekend for further
    16        preparation.
    17
    18        If we finished in good time on Thursday, I would give you
    19        the opportunity to say what you wanted to say on any of
    20        these topics, but then go away for the Friday, as it were,
    21        before calling on Ms. Steel or Mr. Morris to reply to what
    22        you have said, so that they could think about what you had
    23        said in support of your applications over those three days.
    24
    25   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, of course, I would be willing to do
    26        that.  I could say quite a lot now if there were time,
    27        there is not.  I would only say this, depending on how much
    28        time I had, I would not want to feel under pressure that I
    29        had to finish on Thursday.
    30
    31   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, no.  What it seemed to me is that there
    32        would be no point in coming back on Friday just for you to
    33        finish, as it were.  You could resume on the Monday
    34        morning.  I would allow the Friday as a preparation in
    35        relation to submissions.  I would like you to say by then,
    36        if this schedule has any appeal at all, who you would
    37        propose to call on the Thursday and the Friday, so that
    38        when Ms. Steel and Mr. Morris go away on Thursday evening
    39        they know they have got procedural matters to prepare for
    40        and whatever the named witnesses are.
    41
    42   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, we will do that.  Your Lordship did
    43        kindly say that I need not be here on Friday.
    44
    45   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    46
    47   MR. RAMPTON:  That makes no difference.  I am not suggesting the
    48        court should not sit.
    49
    50   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I had forgotten it was as close as that. 
    51        What I suggest you do is schedule your witnesses so that 
    52        you, Mr. Atkinson and Mrs. Brinley-Codd are content that 
    53        Mr. Atkinson holds the fort on Friday.
    54
    55   MR. RAMPTON:  That is what I had in mind.  One other thing
    56        before I sit down, if I may respectively say so, that plan
    57        certainly suits our way of thinking.  If we are going to
    58        start the interlocutories on Monday 3rd, and there is going
    59        to be a skeleton argument about some aspect of the
    60        nutrition topic -- what that could relate to, I cannot

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