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1 also pencilled in "query Connor McCann may come", and you
2 said something more about Mr. McCann, which I cannot now
3 remember. But I think it was just to re-express a doubt as
4 to whether he would attend.
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6 MR. MORRIS: Connor McCann will not be coming. If it is any --
7 I do not think I should say.
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9 MR. JUSTICE BELL: All I want you to say ------
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11 MR. MORRIS: He is in some religious order.
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13 MR. JUSTICE BELL: All I want you to say is whether there is a
14 final position that Connor McCann is coming or is not
15 coming, or it is in doubt.
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17 MR. MORRIS: We will read out his statement as a Civil Evidence
18 Act.
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20 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You have Civil Evidence Act grounds for
21 reading his statement.
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23 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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25 MS. STEEL: Mr. McCann has become a monk, and -----
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27 MR. MORRIS: We think -- something like that, anyway.
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I hope this litigation is not responsible for
30 that. What you do not have to do is give me any
31 explanation as to why he may not be here. I do not need
32 one. I am not going to draw any conclusion with regard to
33 his evidence that he does not actually come from outside
34 the -----
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36 MR. MORRIS: I understand that, yes.
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let me just make a note. (Pause) Now, can we
39 use some time to read some witnesses? Do you remember that
40 I mentioned this?
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42 MR. MORRIS: We are going to do that. I would not mind reading
43 some stuff that was not David McGee, for this simple
44 reason, that we cannot find our notes, and if we were going
45 to do that we would like Mr. Rampton just to summarise all
46 his points again.
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Have you got Mr. McGee's statement?
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50 MS. STEEL: Yes. I cannot find where I made a note of what he
51 said that is hearsay.
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53 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I will be surprised if Mr. Rampton objected
54 to putting his argument again.
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56 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord ----
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Get a copy of the statement, first of all.
59 It is in my pale volume 3 at divider 3.
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