Day 120 - 03 May 95 - Page 65


     
     1   MR. RAMPTON:  I have put that forward on the basis that it is
     2        for Mr. Stein's convenience, which it is.  To his
     3        inconvenience, as I say, if he is not finished by Friday
     4        30th he will come back on Monday, 24th July.  But it has
     5        this subsidiary or consequential advantage that it does
     6        give the defendants an additional three days to prepare for
     7        cross-examination of Mr. Stein Monday and Tuesday ----
     8
     9   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Which day in July would he come back?
    10
    11   MR. RAMPTON:  He would come back in the last week -- what may be
    12        the last week, the 24th.  So they will get five days
    13        cross-examination from the 26th to the 30th.  One hopes
    14        that might be enough, but if it is not he will come back in
    15        the week beginning 24th July if needed.
    16
    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Are you contemplating putting anyone in ----
    18
    19   MR. RAMPTON:  I could certainly do that.  I can very easily do
    20        that now if I know who some of the defendants' witnesses
    21        are going to be because I have quite a lot of people in
    22        this country that I could just slot in for those three
    23        days.  But I would only do that if your Lordship wished me
    24        to save court time.  If, on the other hand, your Lordship
    25        thought it right to give the defendants another three days
    26        prep for Mr. Stein, then I would leave him blank.  As far
    27        as that is concerned, I am in your Lordship's hands
    28        entirely.  I have a number of quite short witnesses that
    29        I could easily put into those three days if your Lordship
    30        would wish me to do so.
    31
    32   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let us take it stage by stage.  Ms. Steel and
    33        Mr. Morris, do you have anything to say about Monday 15th
    34        and Tuesday 16th?  That is, having Mr. Fairgreaves on the
    35        Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of that week?
    36
    37   MS. STEEL:  No, we have not got any objection to that.  We did
    38        not say that we would be finished in two days.  We just
    39        said that was the estimate.
    40
    41   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That is the point I made, that you gave a two
    42        day estimate.
    43
    44   MS. STEEL:  Yes.  Hopefully it will be enough time.
    45
    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If all went comparatively well, and we
    47        finished Mr. Fairgreaves in that week and finished Miss
    48        Barnes in the following week and finished Mr. Purslow in
    49        the following week, we might then have some time towards
    50        the end of the next week or at the beginning of what I call 
    51        Mr. Stein's week.  It would be wrong to say I am getting 
    52        anxious because it is entirely a matter for the parties not 
    53        for me, but we are getting what I can see may be an
    54        accumulation of interlocutory matters which have been put
    55        over through a desire to get on with hearing evidence.
    56
    57        So all I will say at this stage is that I would like you to
    58        make your list of topics which you want decided and I would
    59        like you to make the list in order of urgency; not
    60        necessarily any other logical order but just the order in

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