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1 will answer the interrogatories as directed by your
2 Lordship. There is a judgment which tells us what it is
3 that we have to do.
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, I remember now. It seems to me it is
6 desirable to put some date on the decision. The last thing
7 in the world I am sure anyone wants to do is come to
8 employment and find, when the evidence is heard, there are
9 loose ends which have to be investigated which are going to
10 take time to follow up.
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12 MR. RAMPTON: I will see when employment first rears its head --
13 21st February on my chart. If it started on 21st February
14 and we called everybody (which is a question to which, of
15 course, we are giving very serious consideration), we
16 should not finish our evidence on employment until 5th May.
17 So there is, in fact, plenty of time. At the moment
18 these witnesses -- I think I told your Lordship before; if
19 I have not, I do now -- are not listed in any particular
20 order. All we have done is write them down as we thought
21 of them on a piece of paper. So, one should not take
22 Friday, 10th March as being the day on which, if we called
23 her, Eva Marie Sasche will be called.
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25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Might I suggest that either the Defendants be
26 informed that it is proposed to call Mrs. Sasche or they be
27 given an answer to the relevant interrogatories by Friday,
28 13th January, which is the third day back in the new term.
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30 MR. RAMPTON: Mrs. Brinley-Codd asks if we could have to the end
31 of the week after that, simply because that week ending
32 13th is the first week back, the official week back, and
33 there will be a quite a lot to do during that week.
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35 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. That would give you nearly two months
36 or nearly a month before we actually start employment which
37 itself looks as if it will take some time.
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39 MR. MORRIS: Yes, that is fine.
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41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It means that whoever drafts the answer to
42 interrogatories has the vacation to do it in, rather than
43 loading on top of whatever else they are doing this term,
44 and should give you enough time. That would seem fair to
45 me, if you knew either that she was being called or had the
46 interrogatory by Friday, 20th January. I will make a
47 direction to that effect.
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49 Is there anything more you want to say about Eva Marie
50 Sasche?
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52 MR. MORRIS: No.
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What about John Cook?
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56 MR. MORRIS: We are just checking his statement. We basically
57 want him to be called as a witness. He has made a
58 statement. He is, what you might call, central to one of
59 the main issues on employment which is relations with trade
60 unions in the USA.
