Day 313 - 13 Dec 96 - Page 32


     
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     2   MR. MORRIS:  I have some various bits and pieces but I am sort
     3        of filling in while Helen-----
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     5   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I do not want you to fill in, we have past
     6        the stage where this trial needs any filling in.
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     8   MR. MORRIS:  No, these are all important points I wanted to
     9        make.
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    11   MR. JUSTICE BELL: You have enough experience, you know you can
    12        ask me and we break off.  Now if you need time to consider
    13        something of a bit earlier, but I need you to tell me what
    14        more you have to address me on, because you have dealt with
    15        some matters of law; you have dealt with counterclaim, so
    16        far as I can see; you have dealt with damage, very shortly
    17        but that is understandable, and from my aspect those are
    18        the matters that you are entitled to speak on from this
    19        morning onwards.
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    21   MS. STEEL:   I have got a few more bits of law.  Some of them do
    22        repeat a little bit what I said the other day but hopefully
    23        I can hand them up and then do not need to read them out.
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    25   MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am not going to be too strict about that,
    26        but they must be legal points which have really been
    27        provoked by what was in Mr. Rampton's written submissions,
    28        or something he said along the way.
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    30   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  We are going to say something about damages
    31        in general the Plaintiffs are seeking.
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    33   MS. STEEL:   There is a bit about the law on malice that we want
    34        to deal with.
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    36   MR. MORRIS:  I think that we are confident...  I do not know how
    37        long Mr. Rampton needs.  We are pretty confident-----
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    39   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I do not know.  I may have to ask some
    40        questions about the law.  It seems to me you have got to
    41        pretty near the end of what you have to say.  I will
    42        adjourn now and I will come back at ten to two.
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    44   MR. MORRIS:  Can we say, it might be beneficial to have to two
    45        o'clock.  I tell you why.  One thing we are hoping to do
    46        over lunch, if we get a chance, is to identify what in the
    47        leaflet is fact and which is comment, we say, which is a
    48        job that we needed to have done by today and we have not
    49        had a chance to do yet.  But we are hoping to do that over
    50        lunch.
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    52   MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.  I would like you to be fairly brief
    53        about that.  You need not finish this afternoon.  If you
    54        do, well and good.  Mr. Rampton may wish to reply on
    55        certain matters you have raised.  I would like to hear what
    56        you have to say, apart from anything else, Mr. Rampton, in
    57        relation to the part which article 10 plays, if any, in
    58        this case.
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    60   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, I have prepared for that.

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