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1 witnesses you wish to call to the end of your case without
2 undue breaks, and then proceeding to the Defendants calling
3 all their witnesses without undue break. I do not think
4 anyone in the court wants to be reduced to that final
5 solution, but that is the final solution.
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7 Is there anything more we can say at this stage? I only
8 entered into this, as it were, to try to help find a course
9 of events which is the least inconvenient to the parties.
10 It would not normally be my task at all. Is there anything
11 more that anyone wants to say about scheduling at this
12 stage?
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14 MR. MORRIS: Just advance notice, and this will make absolutely
15 no difference, half an hour's difference perhaps, to the
16 schedule probably, that Rosemary Lovett we cannot trace and
17 we will be putting a Civil Evidence Act notice on when
18 I get to down to writing it on the grounds that I cannot
19 trace her. If you remember she was the one who saw the
20 memo. I do not think the whole case depends upon her
21 evidence one way or the other, but she sums up the complete
22 total of her evidence in her statement.
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24 Mr. Patel, who is a very important witness for us again, we
25 cannot trace at all. That may have to be the subject of a
26 Civil Evidence Act notice. I am sill trying to trace him.
27 That is just advance notice of why some names are not
28 appearing on our list. We are still trying to trace some
29 of them.
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Are they the two Ms. Steel said you might
32 want to call in addition?
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34 MR. MORRIS: No, that was Shaun Rocheck and Keith Baker who we
35 have already informed the Plaintiffs in a letter who were
36 in addition to letter we wrote on 7th September. Mr. Patel
37 I think was a Manager, certainly Manager grade at a number
38 of McDonald's and wrote a fairly extensive statement for
39 us. There are a number of other outstanding people who we
40 are still in the process of contacting, but with Mr. Patel
41 all the lines have gone dry, if you like, in terms of
42 tracing him.
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44 We will keep the Plaintiffs informed of any developments
45 relevant to this subject. I do not think we have anything
46 else to say on scheduling.
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The first thing for you to concentrate on is
49 to do your very best to fill Wednesday 18th and 19th
50 October, two days of the half term and the week beginning
51 Monday, 30th October.
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53 MR. MORRIS: We have nothing else to raise today.
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55 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I will adjourn now and we will resume at
56 10.30 in the morning with Mr. Atkinson.
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58 (The court adjourned until the following day).
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