Day 110 - 29 Mar 95 - Page 25
1 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I suggest you do, if you know the answer
2 now you can tell me; if you say, well, you would just like
3 a day or two to think about it, I think you should try to
4 tell me by the end of the week.
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6 But what is really being suggested at the moment is that on
7 the afternoon of Wednesday, 26th, we continue with
8 Mr. Nicholson on employment topics only. Even though he is
9 restricted to employment and not publication, I would be
10 prepared to say: "Well, you need not start cross-examining
11 him until Monday, 1st May". You will have to cross-examine
12 him then in relation to employment but not publication.
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14 That may finish before the end of that week, which will
15 give you more time before, as the proposal is, Mr. Beavers
16 is called on Tuesday, 9th. If you finish cross-examining
17 Mr. Nicholson on employment before the end of Friday, 5th,
18 you have some time at the end of that week. You have
19 Monday, 8th, to help your preparation for Mr. Beavers.
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21 As we are going along through the week beginning Monday,
22 1st May, we can discuss what the timetable is looking like
23 then. Mr. Fairgrieve can start later in the following week
24 which gives you time to get back to him and his schedules
25 and graphs and so on. I have not really concerned myself
26 beyond that at the moment.
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28 MS. STEEL: Can I just say what Mr. Rampton said was actually
29 not right. Our only concern was not about not having
30 publication. This is relevant to the fact that when a
31 schedule goes in front of you, it does tend to become
32 fairly fixed. On the last occasion that we discussed
33 timetabling, we did actually say that we did not want to
34 start again on 26th. That was something we raised
35 yesterday. As far as I can remember, you said that you
36 would leave a decision on that until we came back to it,
37 and had some kind of draft timetable in front of us.
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I came back to it yesterday because it seemed
40 pretty clear to me that we were not going to need to run
41 into the week beginning 10th. In fact, we may finish
42 before the end of next week. So, what it looked to me that
43 you were getting, you were getting each one of the three
44 days we would have otherwise sat at the end of this term
45 added to the Easter vacation as extra time.
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47 It is entirely a matter for you whether you take a rest
48 immediately or carry on working for a while. That is
49 entirely your own business. But we have three days added
50 to the Easter vacation in any event. We are starting about
51 a day late because of other obligations of mine. I thought
52 it better that we start straightaway and I think it should
53 give you enough time but, in any event, i am prepared to
54 say that you should not cross-examine Mr. Nicholson, as
55 I have said more than once now, until Monday, 1st May when
56 all that seems to me to give you sufficient time to be
57 ready.
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59 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord ----
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