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1 was interposed during our evidence on recycling and waste
2 to suit his convenience, again because he came from America
3 and it would not have been right to keep him back if those
4 were the dates that were convenient to him. I make the
5 same observation about Mr. Lamti and his colleague from
6 France.
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8 In saying that, I naturally would hope that the Defendants
9 would exercise a similar understanding and co-operation in
10 relation to my other witnesses from abroad who, I tell your
11 Lordship now, are Mr. Mehigan from Ireland. I had not
12 originally intended to call him because as at 31st August
13 the only live witness he had to answer was a lady called
14 Anne Kaysey on the Defendants' side and, having looked at
15 her statement, it did not seem to me that there was
16 anything much in her statement that Mr. Mehigan's presence
17 here was needed to respond to.
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19 Then on 18th of this month, that is to say, about a week
20 ago, Mr. Morris notified us that in addition to Mrs. Kaysey
21 he intended to call a gentleman, Sean Rochec, who is also
22 one of the Irish witnesses for the Defendants. In the
23 light of that, we decided that contrary to what we had
24 originally thought it would be desirable for us to call
25 Mr. Mehigan.
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27 The result of that is that the first date that he can make
28 is 16th October. Whether he is there for one or two days,
29 I do not know, that depends upon the Defendants' estimate
30 of their cross-examination. Once he is here, of course, he
31 can be cross-examined, not only about what Mrs. Kaysey says
32 and Mr. Rochec, but also what about the other Irish
33 witnesses have said in their statements who are not going
34 to be called live by the Defendants, so it may be he would
35 be here for two days.
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37 My Lord, that leaves only our Canadian witnesses. There
38 will be two of those, I think. They were both crew members
39 at the time of the events described or deposed to by Sarah
40 Ingliss whose capacity as a live witness was notified to us
41 on 31st August. The earliest that they can arrange to be
42 here is the week beginning 6th November. That,
43 I anticipate, is the only area of this somewhat lop-sided
44 schedule that might cause a difficulty because, of course,
45 one can understand that the Defendants would not want to
46 call Sarah Ingliss until after our two Canadian witnesses
47 had given their evidence.
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49 What we have not been told by the Defendants is we have not
50 had any indication by the Defendants, apart from Lamti and
51 Villeneuve-Gallez, of the order in which they intend to
52 call their witnesses. So, we have no clue when Sarah
53 Ingliss might be intended to be called as a witness for the
54 Defendants.
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56 I say, therefore, now that if she should be coming to this
57 country she should, if the Defendants can arrange it, in
58 their own interests, come after 6th, 7th and, perhaps, 8th
59 November.
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