Day 255 - 23 May 96 - Page 43


     
     1        attended.
     2
     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Right.  Very well.  Then what more have you
     4        got to cover with Mr. Nicholson?
     5
     6   MS. STEEL:  I do not know; there is quite a lot.
     7
     8   MR. JUSTICE BELL: But what areas have you got to cover with him?
     9
    10   MS. STEEL:  There are questions relating to the various leaflets
    11        which are in the publication bundles and I am not, by any
    12        stretch, going to go through every single one but there are
    13        some questions that I want to ask in relation to that.
    14        I have actually got quite a lot of questions and the
    15        problem is that I am pretty disorganised, mainly because
    16        I spent the whole of last night doing the appeal, which had
    17        to be in, basically, so I have not had time to sort
    18        everything out, but there are quite a lot more questions.
    19
    20   MR. MORRIS:  Can I say something while Helen is trying to sort
    21        her papers out.  It is not directly relevant to this court
    22        but it is about the appeal.  When we went to the appeal
    23        office on Tuesday, we finished early, if you remember, this
    24        week.  They were not ready to send us the papers even
    25        though the deadline was this Friday, the forms without
    26        which you cannot apply for leave to appeal, and we
    27        virtually had to have a sit-in in the office and refused to
    28        leave until we got the forms.  What we understand is that
    29        you had indicated you would ask them to ----
    30
    31   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I wrote a letter to Mr. Adams saying that you
    32        led me to believe you wanted to seek leave to appeal.
    33
    34   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
    35
    36   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I cannot remember now, although I kept a copy
    37        of the letter, I think I may have indicated that I was not
    38        going to hold up the trial pending that but, again, I would
    39        be grateful if the matter could be dealt with as soon as
    40        possible.
    41
    42   MR. MORRIS:  We appreciate that.  I appreciate that.
    43
    44   MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am just trying to tell you what my
    45        recollection is of what I wrote.
    46
    47   MR. MORRIS: What worries me is that here we have an appeal limit
    48        of 28 days.  We have a case that is current with a judge
    49        who has actually written to the Appeal Office, and that we
    50        have no prospect of getting the papers in time to actually 
    51        lodge our application for the appeal. 
    52 
    53   MS. STEEL:  Before the deadline.
    54
    55   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I cannot say anything about the running of
    56        the Court of Appeal.  There is nothing I do.  I cannot
    57        extend your time or anything like that.
    58
    59   MR. MORRIS:  I understand that.  I just think it is an
    60        administrative worry really, but that is why we are a

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