Day 158 - 19 Jul 95 - Page 61


     
     1        things to Mrs. Antenni on the basis of those transcripts
     2        without notice to me, then I shall certainly want to see
     3        it.
     4
     5   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  How long is it thought Mrs. Farrer will take,
     6        how long in-chief?
     7
     8   MR. RAMPTON:  About half an hour, 40 minutes.
     9
    10   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  How long do you think you will be
    11        cross-examining Mrs. Farrer?  I am thinking about the time
    12        table for the rest of the week.  May I say what I have in
    13        mind at the moment is that we continue with the remainder
    14        of the argument on amendment numbers 1 and 2, that we deal
    15        with timings and any other matters left over from my
    16        ruling, that we will not hear Mrs. Farrer before 2 o'clock
    17        tomorrow afternoon.  If that means there is some gap
    18        between the argument and 1.00 p.m. that will not concern me
    19        because it will give me time perhaps to finish my ruling on
    20        the matters we argued about yesterday and the first thing
    21        this morning, so I can deliver that maybe.  But suppose you
    22        call Mrs. Farrer at about 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, how
    23        long would she take to finish?  You would finish her
    24        in-chief halfway through the afternoon.
    25
    26   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I would be finished before 3.00.
    27
    28   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  We would have our five-night break.  How long
    29        do you think you would be with Mrs. Farrer?
    30
    31   MR. MORRIS:  I think she will go over to Friday.
    32
    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just do your best and tell me how long you
    34        think she will go into Friday.  Do you think she will take
    35        the whole of Friday morning?
    36
    37   MR. MORRIS:  I think it depends on what she says.  We really
    38        cannot give any kind of estimate on how long she will
    39        take.  It depends what she says.
    40
    41   MR. RAMPTON:   What she will say, my Lord, is in her statement.
    42
    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Who was the other witness you had there?  Was
    44        it Mrs. Hall?
    45
    46   MR. RAMPTON:  I have dropped her, because I do not think we can
    47        fit her in.  It depends how long the Defendants are with,
    48        first, Mrs. Farrer, although I find it totally
    49        inconceivable that they could not finish her on Thursday.
    50        There it is.  I suppose I have to get used to that.  Then 
    51        how long on Friday they need, because every time a witness 
    52        goes longer than I would expect, the rest get shunted.  If 
    53        Mrs. Antenni starts on Friday -- which I am certain she
    54        ought to; she is a franchisee, and she has put it aside, as
    55        well as Monday -- she certainly ought to finish on Monday.
    56        If she does not, then I would not call any more evidence
    57        this term.  But I would like, if it were up to me, to use
    58        all or some of Tuesday for the Defendants' outstanding
    59        interlocutory applications, in particular, the application
    60        which they say they want to make in relation to nutrition.

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