Day 169 - 04 Oct 95 - Page 25
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2 MR. RAMPTON: No re-examination, my Lord.
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4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Thank you. You may be asked to return to
5 court in the future, but you will just have to wait and
6 see.
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8 Insofar as Mrs. Brinley-Codd or one of her colleagues asks
9 you about matters to do with your evidence, then answer.
10 But I would like you, if anyone in the restaurant or
11 working for McDonald's in any capacity asks you about your
12 evidence or what you were asked in evidence, just to say
13 the judge has told you that you are not to discuss those
14 matters until it is known whether you are to be recalled
15 and if you are recalled you have completed your evidence?
16 A. I understand.
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Mr. Rampton, I say that as much for the
19 witness's protection as for any other reason
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21 MR. RAMPTON: Yes.
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL (To the witness): Thank you.
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25 (The witness withdrew)
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27 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, Mrs. French is here. Mr. Atkinson will
28 call her. I will say this now: At some stage today I
29 would appreciate being able to mention two things to your
30 Lordship, one is Mr. Cesca's dates that your Lordship asked
31 us to find out about.
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes
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35 MR. RAMPTON: We now have that information. The other is the
36 matter of the French witnesses.
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Why do we not do that now?
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40 MR. RAMPTON: If your Lordship wishes, yes. Can I take
41 Mr. Cesca first? That is very simple. Your Lordship
42 indicated a strong preference -- I think were your
43 Lordship's words -- that he should be called on Monday,
44 11th December to go through, if necessary, to the end of
45 Thursday, the 21st.
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47 My Lord, the position is this: He is chairing an
48 international conference in the People's Republic of China
49 for the preceding week, the one beginning 4th or, at any
50 rate, some part of that week. He has found out that he can
51 get an aeroplane from Beijing, I think it is, to this
52 country on Sunday, 10th. Because of the way the time
53 works, what is, I think, an 11 or 13 hour flight, I forget
54 which way round it is, he would not arrive in this country
55 until Sunday evening on 10th.
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57 What I would ask is that he could be given Monday, 11th to
58 recover before he has to give evidence, and that he should
59 start his evidence on Tuesday, 12th.
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