Day 205 - 17 Jan 96 - Page 56
1 Lordship indicated, directed or ordered (and I am not sure
2 which it was) we should serve our Heathrow statements by
3 5th January which we did do, I think because the Defendants
4 said they wanted time to read them.
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6 MS. STEEL: Ironically enough, we have had plenty to do over
7 Christmas and I have been ill.
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9 MR. RAMPTON: What your Lordship, in fact, said was this, on
10 the 15th December, on page 17: "I give leave to call
11 Mr. Beech, which I had already indicated I wish to give
12 leave anyway. I merely indicate (and I will be surprised
13 if the Defendants objected) that it would only seem right
14 that you, that is the Plaintiffs, should call a witness
15 perhaps more in response to Mr. Beech, but it is important
16 that a statement of any such witness or witnesses be served
17 fairly soon, should I give direction to be served by Friday
18 the 8th". I said that is not the date, it is Friday the
19 5th. Then we said we would serve them by Friday the 5th
20 and we did. Whether your Lordship -----
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think leave to call the witnesses whose
23 statements you served was implicit in that.
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25 MR. RAMPTON: I hope so.
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Again, I do not think it is a question of
28 counting hairs.
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30 MR. RAMPTON: No.
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32 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is a question of the weight to be attached
33 to however many witnesses ---
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35 MR. RAMPTON: It is.
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: -- on either side. So I have given leave to
38 the Defendants to call Mr. Beech, and I will give you leave
39 to call, I think it is, Mr. Hendon, Semir Khazna, is it?
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41 MR. RAMPTON: No, my Lord. Their names are Khazna.
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43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Dave Roberts?
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45 MR. RAMPTON: Roberts.
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Kim Moffatt?
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49 MR. RAMPTON: Paul Le Maire and Steve Plaister. None of them
50 will be long witnesses and it is our hope that we deal with
51 them in a couple of days.
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53 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, I would like you, some time earlier
54 rather than later next week, to give a batting order for
55 those.
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57 MR. RAMPTON: We have got that and we can do it now. It is
58 being written down. I am sorry, I have not got the
59 appropriate files with me otherwise I would be slightly
60 more efficient in answering your Lordship's enquiry. The
