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1 examination-in-chief, Mr. Rampton will want to ask some
2 questions in cross-examination. He may need to do so, I
3 do not know, before he takes further instructions to try
4 to feel out the exact extent of any issue, I do not know.
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6 What I will do, I will come back at a quarter to 4. I
7 would like you to go ahead and finish your
8 examination-in-chief then. I will not stop you if at some
9 stage in the future you say there is something you should
10 have asked Mr. Cannon which you have not. I would like
11 Mr. Rampton, if he would be so kind, to think about
12 whether he would like to start cross-examination this
13 afternoon, what documents he thinks he should have,
14 including books in their entirety which he has not got, so
15 that we can decide how that is going to be solved and,
16 Mr. Rampton, how long you think it will be before you feel
17 able to continue your cross-examination because then we
18 can see how Mr. Cannon is placed..
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20 (Short Adjournment)
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22 MR. MORRIS: We do not have any further questions today but
23 just in case, because of the confusion, we want to come
24 back on three or four things ----
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26 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. What do you want to do now,
27 Mr. Rampton?
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29 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I would like to start cross-examining
30 Mr. Cannon. I doubt that I will finish because for one
31 principal reason I do not have the complete versions of
32 many of the documents to which he has referred. I shall
33 certainly wish to see those and review them with my
34 experts. It may be that I shall say that I do not need
35 to ask any more questions in due course, but I cannot
36 commit myself to that. I can, I hope, not waste
37 everybody's time by asking a few questions this afternoon,
38 if that is all right, which is what I would like to do.
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40 MS. STEEL: Can I just say something? I am in difficulties if
41 we carry on beyond half past four.
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43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think I would not do that in any event.
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45 MR. RAMPTON: I was not proposing to go a long time. I will go
46 on until the court rises.
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I was aiming to rise at a quarter past 4, 20
49 past four. Let us stick to that. If there is anything
50 you want to raise with me before we adjourn, we ought to
51 start talking about it by 10 past 4.
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53 MR. RAMPTON: It would only be the extent to which by one route
54 or another I could be provided with complete versions of
55 various documents to which Mr. Cannon has made reference.
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57 Cross-Examined by Mr. Rampton
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59 Q. Can I ask a little bit more, please, about your
60 professional role in relation to, is it called the World
