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1 return them by the end September to court, by arrangement
2 through Mr. Glenn, and to let Mrs. Brinley-Codd know where
3 and how she can get at any volumes of the documents if she
4 requires them during the long vacation, then you may take
5 them away.
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7 MR. MORRIS: That is appreciated.
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9 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. Else have we got to do?
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11 MS. STEEL: The only thing I wanted to raise is about the
12 schedule for next term. I do not know if anyone has got
13 anything before that. No one is saying anything, so I will
14 carry on.
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16 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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18 MS. STEEL: You said that term normally ended about the 21st
19 December. I have looked at my diary the 20th is a Friday,
20 so I presume that will be when we finish.
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Well, I wish things were so rational. It is
23 not always so. I do not know when the last day of term is.
24 I remember we had to come back last year on a Monday
25 because it happened to be the 31st July and it was thought
26 that it would be wrong to end term on the 30th. So I make
27 no guess at when the last day of the Christmas term is.
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29 MS. STEEL: Right.
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: How does that affect the scheduling anyway?
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33 MS. STEEL: All I was going say that working backwards from that
34 week, if there were three weeks for Mr. Rampton to do his
35 closing speech, and I mean, obviously he thought like a few
36 days, and then obviously you said about there might be
37 legal matters to come up and in case of any, you know, Mr.
38 Rampton takes a little bit longer than expected that would
39 give -- if Mr. Rampton was to start on the 2nd December
40 that would give three weeks for all that which would mean
41 that we would in the way that you referred to it last week,
42 we would need to finish by the 29th November.
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44 The reason I am trying to do it this way, I mean you said
45 something about we would have to say what date we were
46 going to be finishing by if we wanted to take up some of
47 the six weeks that you had allotted for us to do closing
48 speeches with continuing to write them. So that was when I
49 worked out the sort of, the date would be that we would
50 have to be finished by, giving, as in your reckoning, three
51 weeks for Mr. Rampton and any legal matters.
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53 The situation at present is that I do not really know what
54 is going to be more useful us to in terms of whether it is
55 more time in Court, or more time out of Court preparing the
56 closing speeches. I think probably I certainly could do
57 with a little bit longer for preparation but I think, I
58 mean if we have got a date that we need to finish by, then
59 presumably, I do not know whether it would be okay if we
60 notify the Court as to when we want to start in order to
