Day 128 - 24 May 95 - Page 59
1 the subject of privilege, might also be disclosable. That
2 I understand. General discussions about electric shocks
3 covering which might be -- I do not know -- how long a
4 period, I would heartily resist as being irrelevant.
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6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Unless you have something you must ask
7 Mrs. Barnes, I am not proposing to go any further with her
8 this evening. Is there anything you must ask this
9 evening?
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11 MS. STEEL: No. There were some other documents I wanted to ask
12 about. I do not think I should need to ask Mrs. Barnes
13 about any more documents, but there were some others I
14 wanted to request that we get copies of.
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16 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you need to ask Mrs. Barnes about those?
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18 MS. STEEL: I do not think so because I have asked already.
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20 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Leave the witness box, Mrs. Barnes. If you
21 do not mind waiting in court for the time being.
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23 (The witness withdrew)
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25 MS. STEEL: There was the rest of the report at 57M, from which
26 the accident statistics have been taken.
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28 MR. RAMPTON: No, my Lord. That I think has already been dealt
29 with on the basis that the relevant parts of that have been
30 already disclosed, in accordance with your Lordship's
31 order.
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, I think I actually made an order.
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35 MR. RAMPTON: You did.
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I actually said what we had was, I thought,
38 sufficient for our purposes.
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40 MS. STEEL: That was in terms of statistics, but the report,
41 Mrs. Barnes has said, is about health and safety and ways
42 of cutting down on accidents, improving things, how things
43 have changed, and obviously that would be relevant.
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45 MR. RAMPTON: I do not think it is obvious at all, my Lord.
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can I take it in stages, Mr. Rampton?
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49 MR. RAMPTON: Yes.
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51 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The first thing, before one knows whether a
52 document may have contained matters which are relevant to
53 an issue in the case and, if so, whether it is necessary to
54 have it disclosed for just disposal of the case -- these
55 are not, I think, the exact words but they will do --
56 someone has actually got to see the relevant documents ---
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58 MR. RAMPTON: Yes.
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: -- and apply their mind. We need not bother
