Day 146 - 03 Jul 95 - Page 08


     
     1        and a bit of notice for the McDonald's people, but when
     2        your Lordship thought it right to deal with those
     3        outstanding matters is entirely a matter for your
     4        Lordship.  After employment is finished, perhaps, is one
     5        possibility.
     6
     7        My Lord, I hope your Lordship will not mind, I am not going
     8        to try and see any further into the future than that.  We
     9        have some rainforest witnesses to be brought from abroad,
    10        both Costa Rica and the United States.  Plainly, my Lord,
    11        the more notice we have of the approximate likely date for
    12        the beginning of the rainforest topic, the better from the
    13        point of view of those witnesses and the smooth conduct of
    14        the case.
    15
    16   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I would like all parties to do,
    17        obviously having considered the matter together, if
    18        possible -- if that is not possible, each side have their
    19        own separate estimates -- is some kind of idea of how long
    20        the remainder of the evidence is likely to last.  It need
    21        not be done witness by witness, but if each side can set
    22        down on a bit of paper when they expect the blocks of
    23        evidence, doing the best they can to estimate times, will
    24        be ----
    25
    26   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I believe we should certainly do that
    27        before the end of this term as best we can.
    28
    29   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  I would like that before we finish
    30        sitting this term.
    31
    32   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I would too.  Of course -- and this is
    33        not meant in any derogatory way at all -- it is a fact
    34        everything, in one sense, hinges on who the Defendants in
    35        the end call as employment witnesses.  I have a degree of
    36        uncertainty about that myself at the moment certainly.
    37
    38        My Lord, then next on my agenda was -----
    39
    40   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Are you asking me to give any indication or
    41        ruling about you not calling anyone, for instance, from
    42        Canada or France at the moment?
    43
    44   MR. RAMPTON:  No, I am not.  I am inviting the Defendants to
    45        tell us as soon as possible whether they are calling Sarah
    46        Ingliss as a live witness and whether they are calling the
    47        two French people as live witnesses.  If they say "yes,
    48        they are", and they, with respect to Mr. Morris, say it in
    49        a way which convinces us that they mean it, then we will
    50        get about finding live evidence ourselves. 
    51 
    52        My Lord, I do not know whether the sort of letter which we 
    53        have provided before, and I am sure there are some of those
    54        left in the Defendants' possession, might go to those
    55        witnesses abroad; that written confirmation letter.
    56
    57   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just to go back for a moment to the
    58        transcripts and CaseView; what is it proposed my position
    59        should be?
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