Day 149 - 06 Jul 95 - Page 24
1 MR. RAMPTON: Did I say that?
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I thought you said the end of August.
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5 MR. RAMPTON: I did not mean to.
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7 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I must have completely misheard you. "At the
8 end of all this".
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10 MR. RAMPTON: What I meant was -----
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12 MR. JUSTICE BELL: When you have my ruling on all these matters,
13 you would like to see what, if anything, you have to do and
14 then work out how long it will take you. I understand.
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16 MR. RAMPTON: Your Lordship can be perfectly certain that we
17 will do it as quickly as we possibly can. As your Lordship
18 knows, getting material from the United States, in so far
19 as we may have to do that, takes longer for obvious
20 reasons, unless it happens to be in somebody's draw at
21 Oak Brook (which it usually is not). That may take a bit
22 longer, and I may invite your Lordship to give us different
23 time limits for the English and American material.
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25 Then, my Lord, the maternity memorandum which is mentioned
26 as item 34 at document C of Lyn Mead's documents. We will
27 see if we can find it. I am sure we can. We will look at
28 it and see whether we think it has any relevance to the
29 issues in this case. If it does, we will disclose it.
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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33 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, the next thing was -- again, this is
34 another Defendants' application -- the English Crew Opinion
35 or, rather, the British Crew Opinion Survey questionnaire.
36 Certainly, that ought to be disclosed, if we have it, which
37 I am sure we have; not we, I do not mean -- if McDonald's
38 have it.
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40 May I take the opportunity at this stage of expressing a
41 doubt which has been troubling me for sometime which needs
42 to be resolved at some stage in the case, which is what is
43 the evidential status of the results both of the crew
44 surveys, opinion surveys, and of the termination code
45 tables. It is a technical question. If it needs to be
46 queried, as a matter of evidential status, then that is
47 something we will need to attend to. The same, of course,
48 goes for the Defendants who may think they want to rely on
49 those documents -- as, indeed, might I. At the moment they
50 are probably not evidence of anything at all.
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52 My Lord, the next was a request for documents showing the
53 length of time -----
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55 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can I just put in there that if that is
56 right, it could be very far-reaching, because the same
57 might apply to some of the information which has gone into
58 computers to give printouts of figures which you have.
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60 MR. RAMPTON: I know; and that is task which Mrs. Brinley-Codd
