Day 309 - 03 Dec 96 - Page 70


     
     1        Background Briefing.
     2
     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I thought you might be.  I felt I ought to
     4        read all three of them to see where it came in, if at all,
     5        and I have to say I stumbled on the fact that the words
     6        were not complained of.  I did not expect to find they had
     7        been missed out but, having brought myself to re-read the
     8        counterclaim, I found that they were.
     9
    10   MR. RAMPTON:  The score at the end of the day:  Judge 1; counsel
    11        nil.
    12
    13   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I am not sure the score will remain that way!
    14          When are you expecting to be able to hand over in writing
    15        what remains of your submissions?
    16
    17   MR. RAMPTON:  I hope tomorrow, but I do not like to make -- the
    18        first draft of all four remaining sections has now been
    19        typed.  It is just a question of my going through them.  If
    20        your Lordship will forgive me, at this late stage, I will
    21        not send them back to become perfect; I will alter them in
    22        handwriting.
    23
    24   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    25
    26   MR. RAMPTON:  So, I hope your Lordship will get them by the end
    27        of tomorrow.
    28
    29   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If it was not that there is employment to
    30        deal with, and if they had been ready, I might have
    31        suggested that we did not sit tomorrow so that people could
    32        read them and then I could ask you what I wanted to ask
    33        about employment and go straight on to the other matters,
    34        having read them.  But it seems to me probably the best
    35        thing is if we do resume at 10.30 in the morning.  We may
    36        very well have a short day and finish comfortably before
    37        one o'clock and then everyone can go away.  I will only say
    38        with that in mind that if it is at all possible to have
    39        them available by one o'clock tomorrow, that will have the
    40        advantage that I, Ms. Steel and Mr. Morris can take them
    41        away and begin to look at them, if the time is available,
    42        tomorrow afternoon.
    43
    44   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, we will do our best.
    45
    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The possibility is, I will say no more, that
    47        I adjourn some time tomorrow morning and then sit again on
    48        Friday morning when everyone has had an opportunity to read
    49        the further material.
    50 
    51   MR. RAMPTON:  It is only about 14 pages altogether. 
    52 
    53   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I have asked Ms. Steel and Mr. Morris for
    54        their written submissions on the law by this Friday, but we
    55        can talk about that tomorrow.
    56
    57   MR. MORRIS:  Sorry, I do not know if we heard that, because we
    58        are hoping to meet up with somebody over the weekend and
    59        draft them up over the weekend.  We have got bits and
    60        pieces of various bits of paper that need to be sorted out,

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