Day 209 - 25 Jan 96 - Page 32
1 box?
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a moment, because I am getting up
4 to speed on what is there.
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6 THE WITNESS: I have not got anything. Where is this?
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just wait for a moment. (Pause) Yes.
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10 MR. MORRIS: Is it OK for Mr. Logan to have -- it is exactly the
11 same document.
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13 MR. RAMPTON: No, it is not.
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15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: By all means, subject to anything Mr. Rampton
16 says, ask him what he wants to say. But it is not
17 customary for witnesses to take notes into the witness box
18 with them, unless they are expert witnesses. At the
19 moment, I do not see why Mr. Logan should; and I have no
20 reason to believe he needs them.
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22 MS. STEEL: Probably just to save time, I think, more than
23 anything else.
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25 MR. MORRIS: Especially when it comes to the clock cards.
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You see, I have not read them, and, as far as
28 I know, Mr. Rampton has not read them.
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30 MR. MORRIS: He can read them if he wants to.
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32 MR. RAMPTON: I have read, of course, all the documents. What
33 I have not had the benefit of is Mr. Logan's aide memoire
34 that he has put on the documents. I certainly cannot sit
35 down and read them all now.
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37 THE WITNESS: I do not mind not having them, if that makes a
38 difference.
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40 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I did not suppose you would.
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42 MR. RAMPTON: As your Lordship says, experts are sometimes
43 allowed to take their notes into the witness box, and if
44 people have made contemporaneous -----
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46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not think there is any need, because the
47 witness himself does not want them.
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49 MR. MORRIS: OK. It is just when it comes to clock cards, you
50 know, it might save time. OK. Do we need to actually read
51 out the questions before we read the answers, if the
52 answers are self-explanatory?
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54 THE WITNESS: It is not just this statement.
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What you have in pink volume 1, which is
57 there, one of them has a "1" on the front, and if you turn
58 to divider 2 and then to page 26 ---
59 A. Right.
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