Day 062 - 06 Dec 94 - Page 71
1 MR. RAMPTON: Sorry, my Lord?
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Complete Mr. Hopkins in a day, is that
4 reasonable or not?
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6 MR. RAMPTON: It depends how the Defendants decide to treat his
7 evidence in-chief. Your Lordship will remember it is
8 extremely detailed. I will be making a submission. It
9 depends how they approach it, but certainly a good deal of
10 what he says in his statement will be, in my submission,
11 plainly irrelevant to the issues of this case and ought not
12 to be gone into in evidence or evidence-in-chief because it
13 would just be a waste of time.
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15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That does not stop you following the formula
16 which we have followed with some witnesses of saying: "You
17 want your statement to be treated as part of your
18 evidence-in-chief?" Because it then goes in and I can
19 decide at a later stage what helps, what is relevant and
20 helps me and what does not. What you have really got to
21 think about is what matters do you want to ask him about
22 orally while he is in the witness box. There we are. Let
23 us leave it there for the moment. 10.30.
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25 (The court adjourned until the following day)
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