Day 310 - 04 Dec 96 - Page 34
1 discussion about where we are going next, is to adjourn.
2 What arrangements will be made for -- how big are the
3 bundles?
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5 MR. RAMPTON: It is one file; not one fat file; it is one of
6 those medium or small files.
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: When will they be available for Ms. Steel and
9 Mr. Morris?
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11 MR. RAMPTON: As soon as they are ready, we will send them
12 round. I do not know that they are going to be here by
13 one.
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15 MR JUSTICE BELL: Anyway, Mrs. Brinley-Codd and Ms. Steel and
16 Mr. Morris can find out whether they are going to wait for
17 a while or whether they want them delivered by courier.
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19 MR. RAMPTON: It is only as thick as that. It is a total of
20 about 40 pages, something like that. There is one other
21 thing which is coming as well, which we will deliver at the
22 same time if we can, otherwise later, which is a little
23 additional section on employment which culls a number of
24 answers from the evidence, in effect, in response to the
25 question "What's it like working for McDonald's? " That is
26 really just a list.
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That sounds to me as if it is in the same
29 category as what I have said Ms. Steel and Mr. Morris can
30 give me by Wednesday.
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32 MR. RAMPTON: Oh, it will be long before that.
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34 MR JUSTICE BELL: Yes. But it is the same sort of -----
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36 MR. RAMPTON: What in fact we have done -- because it is, so we
37 would say, a good read -- is simply to set out what the
38 questions and answers were.
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40 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Subject to any comment from anyone, what
41 I would propose to do is adjourn now and resume on Friday
42 morning, when I can follow, if you wish, Mr. Rampton, the
43 same pattern as I have followed with the topics I have read
44 about so far.
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46 MR. RAMPTON: I am in your Lordship's hands.
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If you want to say something more to me
49 about counterclaim, having read what you will have an
50 opportunity to read tomorrow, if not this afternoon,
51 I would like you to be ready to say that you do want to do
52 that and to carry on, if there is time, on Friday. But we
53 will just see how we go. I would like you to be able to
54 tell me on Friday morning just what the position is with
55 regard to any legal argument, in writing or otherwise. So
56 first thing on Friday, we will deal with the question of
57 possible amendment of the counterclaim. 10.30 on Friday.
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59 (The court adjourned until Friday, 6th December, 1996)
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