Day 174 - 17 Oct 95 - Page 55
1 people for those, for two days in that week, in next week.
2 So, as soon as I have got somebody scheduled I will, of
3 course, inform the Plaintiffs.
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Have you filled in any other days because
6 I have a mass of bare paper on this schedule at the moment?
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8 MR. MORRIS: We have scheduled the French witnesses for the 13th
9 to the 15th.
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I would like to do is write in some
12 names. You have given me Mr. Pearson now on those two
13 dates.
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15 MR. MORRIS: Yes. Sarah Inglis ----
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I would have thought Mr. Pearson is a one day
18 witness, is he not?
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20 MR. MORRIS: No, he is a two day witness.
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22 MR. RAMPTON: No, my Lord, he is not in my ----
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24 MR. MORRIS: He is one day in chief.
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26 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, how can he be one day in chief? One only
27 has to look at his witness statement. He could not
28 possibly be one day in chief. It is just not conceivable.
29 He is five or ten minutes in chief, under your Lordship's
30 recent direction, and even if there are supplementaries he
31 asks he could not be more than half an hour. It simply is
32 not credible and, having looked at his statement, I doubt
33 whether I will be cross-examining him for very long
34 either.
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36 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You see, he is only going to be more than an
37 hour in chief, assuming I think it right that you should
38 take him verbally in chief rather than reading his
39 statement. I will extend that. He could only be more than
40 a couple of hours in chief if he was going to add very
41 considerably to what is in his statement.
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43 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, he has two statements.
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45 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, his two statements.
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47 MR. MORRIS: The thing is our understanding, and no doubt
48 Mr. Rampton will do everything he can to try and stop our
49 witnesses speaking and giving evidence by any technique he
50 can think of, and our understanding is he is a Leeds
51 person, that they have had their witnesses giving
52 evidence-in-chief for regularly half a day, sometimes over
53 a day -- I cannot remember, I think Mr. Stein spoke for
54 over a day -- and that Mr. Pearson, we are trying to make
55 sure that our witnesses -----
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57 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let us turn him up because, for all I know,
58 Mr. Pearson may be an important witness, but he did not
59 have anything like the detail that Mr. Stein had to cover
60 of separate instances ----
