Day 165 - 27 Sep 95 - Page 40
1 MR. MORRIS: No.
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3 MS. STEEL: No.
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We will put Mr. Mehigan in the 16th. How
6 long should we allow for him?
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8 MR. MORRIS: I really do not know. I mean, I think two days
9 would be reasonable. He represents -----
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11 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I will say that I do not anticipate being
12 more than certainly not as much as a morning; my usual sort
13 of two hours, I would guess. That would leave a day and a
14 half for cross-examination which I certainly think is
15 reasonable in the circumstances.
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let us put Mr. Mehigan through to Tuesday
18 17th. How can we fill Wednesday 18th or at least part of
19 Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th?
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21 MR. MORRIS: I am not sure how to fill those days.
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Could Mr. Fairgrieve come back during that
24 time?
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26 MR. RAMPTON: I do not know. Whatever solution can be found to
27 avoid what I call completely unnecessary blank days, I will
28 try to find. Certainly those would be two of them and so
29 would be two or three of the days in the half term
30 week. I will ask about Fairgrieve, my Lord.
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32 MS. STEEL: The only problem is if witnesses start coming in on
33 other issues it does mean that we need time to read through
34 all the papers relevant to them and the transcripts.
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36 MR. RAMPTON: Then, in view of that, I think, my Lord, if I may
37 say so, the Defendants should find some evidence for 18th
38 and 19th.
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40 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I would like you to do, I have put a
41 question mark on Wednesday 18th and I have put a question
42 mark in the 19th. I have not put anything in on Monday or
43 Tuesday, 9th or 10th. I am prepared, unless Mr. Rampton
44 wishes to say anything on the matter, to leave those for
45 any roll-over which there might be from the week before or
46 as preparation days. Preparation in your case now
47 obviously not only involves preparing yourself for
48 cross-examination but organising the attendance of your
49 witnesses.
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51 So you have two days there, but what I would like you to
52 do, because the 18th is three weeks away, is see if you can
53 find one or more of your witnesses who relate to evidence
54 which will by then already have been called whom you could
55 call on 18th and 19th. I am not going to make any
56 suggestion whatsoever as to who it should be, but it is
57 three weeks away. What I would like you to do is see if
58 you can fill that time for us with employment evidence.
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60 MR. MORRIS: Right.
