Day 149 - 06 Jul 95 - Page 24


     
     1   MR. RAMPTON:  Did I say that?
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     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   I thought you said the end of August.
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     5   MR. RAMPTON:  I did not mean to.
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     7   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I must have completely misheard you.  "At the
     8        end of all this".
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    10   MR. RAMPTON:  What I meant was -----
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    12   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  When you have my ruling on all these matters,
    13        you would like to see what, if anything, you have to do and
    14        then work out how long it will take you.  I understand.
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    16   MR. RAMPTON:  Your Lordship can be perfectly certain that we
    17        will do it as quickly as we possibly can.  As your Lordship
    18        knows, getting material from the United States, in so far
    19        as we may have to do that, takes longer for obvious
    20        reasons, unless it happens to be in somebody's draw at
    21        Oak Brook (which it usually is not).  That may take a bit
    22        longer, and I may invite your Lordship to give us different
    23        time limits for the English and American material.
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    25        Then, my Lord, the maternity memorandum which is mentioned
    26        as item 34 at document C of Lyn Mead's documents.  We will
    27        see if we can find it.  I am sure we can.  We will look at
    28        it and see whether we think it has any relevance to the
    29        issues in this case.  If it does, we will disclose it.
    30
    31   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    32
    33   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, the next thing was -- again, this is
    34        another Defendants' application -- the English Crew Opinion
    35        or, rather, the British Crew Opinion Survey questionnaire.
    36        Certainly, that ought to be disclosed, if we have it, which
    37        I am sure we have; not we, I do not mean -- if McDonald's
    38        have it.
    39
    40        May I take the opportunity at this stage of expressing a
    41        doubt which has been troubling me for sometime which needs
    42        to be resolved at some stage in the case, which is what is
    43        the evidential status of the results both of the crew
    44        surveys, opinion surveys, and of the termination code
    45        tables.  It is a technical question.  If it needs to be
    46        queried, as a matter of evidential status, then that is
    47        something we will need to attend to.  The same, of course,
    48        goes for the Defendants who may think they want to rely on
    49        those documents -- as, indeed, might I.  At the moment they
    50        are probably not evidence of anything at all. 
    51 
    52        My Lord, the next was a request for documents showing the 
    53        length of time -----
    54
    55   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can I just put in there that if that is
    56        right, it could be very far-reaching, because the same
    57        might apply to some of the information which has gone into
    58        computers to give printouts of figures which you have.
    59
    60   MR. RAMPTON:  I know; and that is task which Mrs. Brinley-Codd

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