Day 286 - 24 Oct 96 - Page 39
1 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I will not do anything which I think to be
2 unfair.
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4 MR. RAMPTON: That is exactly what I said.
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6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think what you have got to do, in your own
7 interest is as well as a much broader interest, is
8 say: "Look, this is the time we have got. This is the way
9 we have divided it up between ourselves. If we look at it,
10 we have really got so much time to deal with this topic and
11 so much time to deal with that topic." If you then say to
12 me on a Thursday evening, "Can we just work half a day
13 tomorrow to finish one topic" and, instead of stumbling on
14 through the beginning of the next one, not sit that
15 afternoon, the better and more efficiently to start the
16 following morning, then that may well appeal to me. With
17 that in mind, the answer to Ms. Steel's request is "yes".
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19 MS. STEEL: Thank you.
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21 MR JUSTICE BELL: I probably do not need to say this, but there
22 has to be planning beyond the next day or two, so that you
23 can make yourselves a diary up to 22nd November and say,
24 "This is how we are going to fit it in." I do not want to
25 keep asking you every other day: "How are we doing?" But
26 I have got to rely on you to do that. Someone, a very
27 experienced advocate still at the Bar, once said to
28 me: "Advocacy is the art of organisation." It is exactly
29 right. Anyway, we will resume at 10.30 in the morning.
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