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1 legal submissions and your reply on the matters in relation
2 to the counterclaim and damages, and I do not mind in which
3 order you do it, at 10.30 on Wednesday, the 11th, which is
4 Wednesday of next week.
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6 Your legal submissions should be in writing, if possible;
7 that is, I am not saying that they must be, but they should
8 be in writing, if possible, handed to me and to the
9 Plaintiffs' representatives on Wednesday morning for
10 elaboration orally in court. Otherwise, start them
11 verbally. I will see how you go. I will give further
12 directions as to time if I think it is necessary, but
13 I hope it will not be because my assessment of this case
14 is, starting on Wednesday morning, you should have ample
15 time to deal with points of law, counterclaim and damages
16 by the end of this week, and that may mean that we use part
17 of next week if Mr. Rampton wants to say anything in
18 response; or, if it is after the end of this week that you
19 hand in any further written submissions in relation to
20 fact. I bear in mind that Ms. Steel asked a few days ago
21 whether they could be handed in before the Wednesday of the
22 last week of term if necessary, and I said of course they
23 could; but you have up until the midday adjournment on
24 Wednesday, the 18th to do that.
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26 So, those are my directions as to when you start on your
27 counterclaim and damages. That is 10.30 next Wednesday.
28 As I said once before, the end of term is not the be-all
29 and end-all of matters, but one does have to move ahead,
30 and I am quite convinced now, seeing how far we have gone
31 with two weeks of term to go, that all submissions can be
32 finished comfortably before the end of term. There is
33 absolutely no need whatsoever for any part of those
34 submissions to take place next term.
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36 MS. STEEL: Just one matter which is completely unrelated but
37 when we were doing the recycling and waste section of
38 summing up you asked me about what the route of the
39 trashwalk was that I had walked and you asked me to say
40 what it was.
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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44 MS. STEEL: It was the route that was -- I walked the route
45 that had been described by Stacey Stump when he was in the
46 witness box, which was Royal Avenue.
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just give me them slowly.
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50 MS. STEEL: From the corner of McDonald's down Royal Avenue,
51 and that was nearside only because I do not know if you
52 remember, Royal Avenue was a funny bit with a green in the
53 middle.
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55 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I know what Royal Avenue looks like, yes; it
56 has the gravel garden in the middle.
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58 MS. STEEL: Yes. Leonard Terrace, Smith Street, Woodfall
59 Street, which is a dead-end so you have to go up and down
60 it, and then you come back on to Smith Street and go to the
