Day 174 - 17 Oct 95 - Page 59


     
     1        well.  What alarms me at the moment is that I have so much
     2        empty space on the schedule.
     3
     4   MR. MORRIS:  It will not be like that when ----
     5
     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I would very much appreciate you filling in
     7        some of these gaps in the schedule and I can then at least
     8        offer a view of my own as to whether you are putting enough
     9        in or not.  If you think I have misjudged that matter you
    10        can come back to me.  But, at the moment, we have a lot of
    11        empty gaps.  What I do not want to do is resort to saying,
    12        "This has got hopeless and McDonald's must just get on
    13        with calling all their witnesses and then you call all
    14        yours at the end"; or, say, for instance, we have still got
    15        an empty week, say in the week ahead of the 20th November,
    16        we have still got a week empty or nearly two weeks empty
    17        and I would very much appreciate Mr. Rampton starting to
    18        call some of his publication witnesses so we can get them
    19        out of the way.
    20
    21   MR. MORRIS:  If it is any help, depending on the transport
    22        arrangements, we are expecting Sean Mrozek and Anne Casey,
    23        Anne Holmes and Anne Casey, to come at the beginning of
    24        that week, the 20th November, and at the end of that week
    25        on the 24th Mel O'Riordon in the morning and Keith Baker in
    26        the afternoon.  We have asked Sarah Inglis to attend on the
    27        9th and 10th November.  I did not want to say the specifics
    28        too early in advance because I wanted to juggle people
    29        around a little bit.
    30
    31   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I have put those names in but I have put a
    32        question mark against each one of them.  What I would very
    33        much like you to do is start filling in like that and then
    34        you can tell me if you run into problems, but at least it
    35        would encourage me to think that we are making some
    36        progress.
    37
    38   MR. MORRIS:  Can I just say, probably the best time is not to do
    39        it now because everyone is getting ready to go, but on the
    40        rulings there were a couple of things we wanted to bring up
    41        before they were finally -- there were two rulings, if you
    42        remember, on the 12th October and the 3rd October.  There
    43        were two or three points we wanted to bring up before they
    44        became final judgments or to point out.
    45
    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Those are my rulings.  If you have some
    47        further argument to put to me, then I will reconsider it,
    48        but you must treat those as actually being the rulings at
    49        the moment.
    50 
    51   MR. MORRIS:  I am not saying that we are questioning the -- that 
    52        is another matter, questioning the actual judgment.  What I 
    53        am saying is that in case there is something like --
    54        I cannot remember now exactly -- there are a couple of
    55        things where there is a word in that is, like "Defendants"
    56        instead of "Plaintiffs" and things like that.
    57
    58   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do not worry about obvious slips.
    59
    60   MR. MORRIS:  There are couple of things where we feel we were

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