Day 307 - 27 Nov 96 - Page 48


     
     1        he would hand in his submission early tomorrow afternoon,
     2        that he would speak for a while introducing them to me and
     3        I would take Friday, Saturday and Sunday to read them and
     4        resume on Monday morning, and this I expressly said, with
     5        the oral submissions he wants to make to me.
     6
     7   MS. STEEL:   I don't know, I would just like to say that in
     8        terms of us being able to read it at the weekend, I work on
     9        Friday and Saturday and Mr. Morris has got his son to look
    10        after, so we will not be able to read that amount of
    11        paperwork.
    12
    13   MR JUSTICE BELL:  That is entirely up to you.
    14
    15   MS. STEEL:   Well, if I want to starve I have got a choice,
    16        I suppose.
    17
    18   MR. MORRIS:   Maybe now is not the time, but we would like to
    19        consider that we have at least, say, Monday and Tuesday off
    20        next week.
    21
    22   MR JUSTICE BELL:  No, there is no possibility of that.  I want
    23        to get on with Mr. Rampton's submissions.  I expressly
    24        said, I am looking for the reference, I can't find it now,
    25        but it is in the -----
    26
    27   MR. RAMPTON:   Your Lordship did say it.  It is no question.
    28
    29   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   I specifically asked that the pages of
    30        transcript be copied for the Defendants, I thought, as well
    31        as me, and I certainly got mine.
    32
    33   MS. STEEL:   We did not get ours.
    34
    35   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   It was the last two or three days of one
    36        particular day.
    37
    38   MR. RAMPTON:   If your Lordship got yours, the Defendants should
    39        have had theirs too.
    40
    41   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   In any event, it does not matter whether the
    42        transcript was copied because I expressly said it.
    43
    44   MR. RAMPTON:   I have not read the transcript.  I know that
    45        your Lordship said Friday, Saturday, Sunday your Lordship
    46        will read it.  Your Lordship will not be able to, I am sure
    47        -- unless you are superhuman, but some judges may be --
    48        absorb all the detail in three days.
    49
    50   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   It is just possible that I may ask Mr. Glenn 
    51        to ring everyone on Friday afternoon and say I am not going 
    52        to sit on Monday because I need that for reading time as 
    53        well, but the plan at the moment is to-----
    54
    55   MR. RAMPTON:   I am expecting to be on my feet on Monday
    56        morning, I always have been.
    57
    58   MR. MORRIS:   Well, I don't know.  I just hope there is never a
    59        trial like this again, that is all I can say.
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