Day 181 - 01 Nov 95 - Page 67


     
     1        but he is happy to come on December 4th, which I was going
     2        to indicate.  I had him before as 16th and 29th.  I vacated
     3        29th, as far as he is concerned, and moved him to December
     4        4th which is a Monday which he is happy with.  He may -- it
     5        is possible -- take only one day.
     6
     7   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think that is very much up to you.  I have
     8        obviously looked at quite a bit of documentation in
     9        relation to him on a number of occasions.  You could take
    10        him fairly shortly in chief.  If you got through him in
    11        chief by noon on Thursday, 16th, I can see it might very
    12        well be that he would be finished that day, important
    13        witness though he is and detailed though he is, if you get
    14        through him by 11 o'clock, it makes the prospect that much
    15        better.
    16
    17   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  I just thought it prudent to act.
    18
    19   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What at the moment I am not terribly
    20        attracted by is a witness of fact such as Mr. Alimi -- and
    21        some detailed fact -- who, at best, is not going to take
    22        more than, say, a day and a half, giving a day of evidence
    23        and then coming back some considerable time later for
    24        another half a day.  Can you find out what his problem is?
    25
    26   MR. MORRIS:  Maybe I can schedule him for the 4th or 5th, or
    27        something, and put him back.  I will contact him, yes.
    28
    29        The other thing is that I am a bit mindful of the fact that
    30        we have got a very packed programme as from last Thursday.
    31        There is not actually a day off, so to speak, a proper
    32        preparation day, until the end of Miss Ingliss on 30th
    33        November.  It is over five weeks all together.  So, I just
    34        think that should be borne in mind, that we are feeling
    35        greatly under stress at the moment, and we would like some
    36        days to be built in for preparation times.
    37
    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I suggest is that I do not give any
    39        indication about that at the moment, because it may well
    40        be, either because we go more quickly than anticipated or
    41        because of some misadventure, you find that you are getting
    42        the odd preparation day.  If we go on for a couple of weeks
    43        and you are not getting one, then raise it with me again
    44        and we will talk about allocating some preparation time.
    45
    46   MR. MORRIS:  OK.
    47
    48   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You see, if, for instance, we did get through
    49        Mr. Jenssen in good time tomorrow, you will get an early
    50        day tomorrow and you will be back at two o'clock on 
    51        Friday. 
    52 
    53   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  Now, what is the situation with Mr. Coton?
    54        I do not see why there is any obligation on us to call him
    55        after our other witnesses.  I mean, it may be that is
    56        better, but -----
    57
    58   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I am not saying there is an obligation.  I am
    59        just saying that if you had the choice it might be a
    60        sensible way of doing it.

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