Day 082 - 01 Feb 95 - Page 22


     
     1        You have to think where you might want me to go and what
     2        you might want me to look at.
     3
     4   MS. STEEL:  Is there any kind of procedure we have to follow?
     5
     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No.  You have to raise it in court with me
     7        and say:  "We would like you to have a look at this".
     8
     9   MS. STEEL:  You would not do it on that day?
    10
    11   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No.  If I thought, having heard anything
    12        Mr. Rampton wanted to say, that it would be useful to see
    13        it, then we would start making arrangements, thinking about
    14        the arrangements to do it.
    15
    16   MS. STEEL:  Is there any provision for unannounced views?
    17
    18   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That would all have to be part of -- you
    19        raise that.  As you remember, my inclination, if I was
    20        going to go into a McDonald's, was to go in unannounced and
    21        unidentified.  A reservation Mr. Rampton had about that is
    22        the parties might not know what I had observed and what
    23        I was, therefore, taking into account which would mean they
    24        had not had an opportunity to call any evidence in relation
    25        to that or address me on that.  It would have to be
    26        canvassed in open court and a decision made as to whether
    27        I should go and, if so, in what circumstances.  All I will
    28        say at the moment is I have absolutely no intention of
    29        going into a McDonald's until the matter has been
    30        canvassed, if at all.
    31
    32   MR. MORRIS:  We will see if we want to bring it up or not.  We
    33        are not sure.
    34
    35   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I do not know whether your Lordship might
    36        fancy a trip to Costa Rica or Brazil!
    37
    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Well, the Vice Chancellor of the Chancery
    39        Division once went to a Pacific island for a view!
    40
    41   MR. MORRIS:  Item 11, scheduling matters were put down as a
    42        matter of routine really.  They are, obviously, continually
    43        being discussed.  Everything seems to be relaxed on that at
    44        the moment.
    45
    46   MR. RAMPTON:  I do not feel terribly relaxed about it.  I will
    47        have some words to say about it on Monday.  I would like,
    48        if I may, now to give advance notice so the Defendants can
    49        start thinking what they are going to do about, if
    50        anything, Ms. Link who is the supposed papermaking expert; 
    51        the names of the employment witnesses that the Defendants 
    52        intend to call as witnesses in this court, and then, my 
    53        Lord, the order and the names of their witnesses on food
    54        poisoning and rearing and slaughter for the sake of future
    55        scheduling after that time and, if possible, an estimate of
    56        how long they are going to take.
    57
    58   MS. STEEL:  Mr. Rampton has the names of the employment
    59        witnesses we intend to call.  The food poisoning and
    60        rearing slaughter, obviously, when we know at what stage

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