Day 126 - 17 May 95 - Page 07


     
     1        emotional, psychological effect of it.  My Lord, then I
     2        would propose that we start at 10.30 on Tuesday morning
     3        with Mrs. Barnes who ought to finish during the week
     4        anyway.
     5
     6   MS. STEEL:  I do not know what the position is now, but
     7        obviously I will tell Mr. Morris about the course
     8        proposed.  If the child minder thing did not succeed,
     9        I would have further things to say about whether it was
    10        fair to continue without Mr. Morris.  So, if it does not
    11        succeed, I would want to reserve further argument on that
    12        point.
    13
    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  By all means, say anything you want to
    15        me about that.  I mean, I really am hoping that it will not
    16        come to that.  At the risk of being too formal about it,
    17        I really think if there is any problem Mr. Morris does have
    18        to get to court to tell me about it, because you are
    19        actually separate parties, and I do not see any question of
    20        prejudice so far as you are concerned.
    21
    22        It happens that you have worked in harness because you have
    23        had the same common interests, but I think the technicality
    24        of it is that you are a separate defendant in your own
    25        right and no misfortune which strikes Mr. Morris affects
    26        the administration of justice so far as you are concerned.
    27
    28   MS. STEEL:  I understand that.
    29
    30   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  But let us not discuss it any further because
    31        I hope we just do not come to it.  What I am trying to
    32        impress on you is that I perfectly understand that he has
    33        not felt able to come today, but if there is any argument
    34        about it still by the beginning of next week, I really
    35        think he has to make some arrangement to get to court to
    36        tell me about it and to put his own case.
    37
    38   MS. STEEL:   I think he did suggest actually that if this
    39        hearing that is happening now was next week, he might be
    40        able to find someone to cover for a morning or something
    41        like that.
    42
    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, I think he should if it comes to it.
    44        But what it seems to me is that he must speak --
    45        Mrs. Brinley-Codd will deal with it so far as you are
    46        concerned?
    47
    48   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, she will deal with it personally.  If I
    49        could, through your Lordship, invite Ms. Steel to tell
    50        Mr. Morris at once what it is we propose -- or it might be 
    51        Mr. Hill, both of whom Mr. Morris knows. 
    52 
    53   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, either.  Mr. Morris -- again in a sense
    54        it is none of my business -- he has got to know
    55        Mrs. Brinley-Codd and Mr. Hill to some extent, I assume in
    56        the course of this case..
    57
    58   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, he has.
    59
    60   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Is he on the telephone at home?  I think he

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