Day 147 - 04 Jul 95 - Page 38


     
     1        schedule for that time.
     2
     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What seems fair to me is that Mr. Rampton,
     4        when he gets to the end of the witnesses he positively
     5        wants to call, can say: "That is all I call", subject to
     6        finding, for instance, that people who have not so far been
     7        listed as live witnesses do come or that Miss Ingliss is
     8        going to come or the two French witnesses are actually
     9        going to come.
    10
    11        I cannot see anything unfair about that, because she is
    12        Canada and they are France; and they could be taken as
    13        separate little compartments within the evidence itself.
    14        You might then say to me then:  "Well, look, we have
    15        actually sent M. Lamti his fare.  We have arranged for him
    16        to come on 11th October.  We would, therefore like" -- you
    17        would have to give some warning -- "McDonald's to call any
    18        French witness they are going to call before we call him",
    19        and I would think about that.
    20
    21        This is not something I am being asked to give a ruling or
    22        direction on, but just an indication of what might happen.
    23
    24   MR. MORRIS:  We will try to get a schedule prepared over the
    25        summer for our employment witnesses as efficiently as we
    26        can, and that schedule will contain the ones that are Civil
    27        Evidence Act Notices that we are able to call.
    28
    29   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I would like you to do is put against
    30        each one "call", and if it is someone who is obviously
    31        resident abroad, put next to it, if you have actually done
    32        it, "fare sent, arrangement made", or something of that
    33        kind.
    34
    35   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, we will try to do that.  I do not think there
    36        is any other matter on employment witnesses.
    37
    38   MS. STEEL:   I was going to get one fairly short thing out of
    39        the way.  The Plaintiffs were -----
    40
    41   MR. MORRIS:  Can I just interrupt a minute?  Simon Givorney,
    42        Michael Logan and Ian Whittle have all confirmed, as have
    43        all the names on that list on the front page, that they
    44        will be attending; and we are still attempting to contact
    45        the outstanding ones.
    46
    47   MS. STEEL:  On number 2 of the Plaintiffs' list of issues, the
    48        application for the Defendants to provide supplementary
    49        statements on publication, yesterday, Mr. Rampton referred
    50        you to the transcript of Day 110 where I said that it was 
    51        not new that I was saying I had not handed out -- the 
    52        easiest thing is if I read it out, actually.  I said: 
    53
    54        "It is not what I am now saying.  I have said this all
    55        along.  The fact is that the interrogatories were not
    56        served until years after the demonstration.  It is hard to
    57        remember what you were doing on a particular day.  I do
    58        have good reasons for a firm belief I was not handing out
    59        the leaflet.  I do not particularly want to go further than
    60        this, because I am not giving evidence at present, but it

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