Day 084 - 07 Feb 95 - Page 12
1 MR. RAMPTON: Wait a minute. My Lord, I am prompted to
2 intervene on the basis that what Mr. Morris has just told
3 your Lordship is simply untrue. My Lord, what actually
4 happened was this: The Defendants, having been at fault in
5 failing to provide more than one copy of documents on most
6 occasions, made a demand of Mrs. Brinley-Codd that she
7 should do a trawl of the transcript to find out -----
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9 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I remember all that.
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11 MR. RAMPTON: She has done it. She is still doing it. The task
12 is not complete. It takes a very great deal of time.
13 There is somebody in Barlow's office who spends a lot of
14 time doing it. May I pass up the fruit of Barlow's labour
15 so far? For Mr. Morris to stand up in this court to say
16 there has not been co-operation is, frankly, an outrage.
17 It might improve the (inaudible) if he did some work
18 himself.
19 (Handed to the learned Judge)
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21 MR. MORRIS: As I said, I thanked Mrs. Brinley-Codd for the
22 obvious work she has done.
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24 MR. JUSTICE BELL: This is very helpful, is it not?
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26 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What more are you suggesting for the time
29 being needs to be done?
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31 MR. MORRIS: I have only just seen this and, as I have said
32 -----
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34 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I suggest you reserve your position on that
35 until you have had a chance to look through it.
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37 MR. MORRIS: It is just that I am saying we need a system. If
38 Mrs. Brinley-Codd (and I never made any demands on
39 Mrs. Brinley-Codd whatsoever) is prepared to do that -----
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41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The position is we started a system whereby
42 anything which you actually produced goes into ring
43 binders. I have one of those started already. The
44 kingfisher blue, as it is called, Supplementary Documents
45 bundle V, I think the number is we have got to now. You
46 are going to keep that going, presumably?
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48 MR. MORRIS: Yes, that is our intention.
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Meanwhile, Mrs. Brinley-Codd has very
51 helpfully produced this which you need to have a look at.
52 What I suggest is you look at it and then decide what your
53 suggestion is with regard to documents which have gone in
54 in the past and tell me what it is, but give yourself a
55 chance to look at this first. Is there a suggestion where
56 that might go so that I do not promptly lose it,
57 Mr. Rampton? I will leave it out on top until someone
58 comes up with a suggestion.
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60 MR. RAMPTON: The only place I can think of at the moment is in
