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     1        legal submissions and your reply on the matters in relation
     2        to the counterclaim and damages, and I do not mind in which
     3        order you do it, at 10.30 on Wednesday, the 11th, which is
     4        Wednesday of next week.
     5
     6        Your legal submissions should be in writing, if possible;
     7        that is, I am not saying that they must be, but they should
     8        be in writing, if possible, handed to me and to the
     9        Plaintiffs' representatives on Wednesday morning for
    10        elaboration orally in court.  Otherwise, start them
    11        verbally.  I will see how you go.  I will give further
    12        directions as to time if I think it is necessary, but
    13        I hope it will not be because my assessment of this case
    14        is, starting on Wednesday morning, you should have ample
    15        time to deal with points of law, counterclaim and damages
    16        by the end of this week, and that may mean that we use part
    17        of next week if Mr. Rampton wants to say anything in
    18        response; or, if it is after the end of this week that you
    19        hand in any further written submissions in relation to
    20        fact.  I bear in mind that Ms. Steel asked a few days ago
    21        whether they could be handed in before the Wednesday of the
    22        last week of term if necessary, and I said of course they
    23        could; but you have up until the midday adjournment on
    24        Wednesday, the 18th to do that.
    25
    26        So, those are my directions as to when you start on your
    27        counterclaim and damages.  That is 10.30 next Wednesday.
    28        As I said once before, the end of term is not the be-all
    29        and end-all of matters, but one does have to move ahead,
    30        and I am quite convinced now, seeing how far we have gone
    31        with two weeks of term to go, that all submissions can be
    32        finished comfortably before the end of term.  There is
    33        absolutely no need whatsoever for any part of those
    34        submissions to take place next term.
    35
    36   MS. STEEL:   Just one matter which is completely unrelated but
    37        when we were doing the recycling and waste section of
    38        summing up you asked me about what the route of the
    39        trashwalk was that I had walked and you asked me to say
    40        what it was.
    41
    42   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    43
    44   MS. STEEL:   It was the route that was -- I walked the route
    45        that had been described by Stacey Stump when he was in the
    46        witness box, which was Royal Avenue.
    47
    48   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just give me them slowly.
    49
    50   MS. STEEL:   From the corner of McDonald's down Royal Avenue, 
    51        and that was nearside only because I do not know if you 
    52        remember, Royal Avenue was a funny bit with a green in the 
    53        middle.
    54
    55   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I know what Royal Avenue looks like, yes; it
    56        has the gravel garden in the middle.
    57
    58   MS. STEEL:   Yes.  Leonard Terrace, Smith Street, Woodfall
    59        Street, which is a dead-end so you have to go up and down
    60        it, and then you come back on to Smith Street and go to the

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