Day 286 - 24 Oct 96 - Page 39


     
     1   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I will not do anything which I think to be
     2        unfair.
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     4   MR. RAMPTON:   That is exactly what I said.
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     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think what you have got to do, in your own
     7        interest is as well as a much broader interest, is
     8        say: "Look, this is the time we have got.  This is the way
     9        we have divided it up between ourselves.  If we look at it,
    10        we have really got so much time to deal with this topic and
    11        so much time to deal with that topic."  If you then say to
    12        me on a Thursday evening, "Can we just work half a day
    13        tomorrow to finish one topic" and, instead of stumbling on
    14        through the beginning of the next one, not sit that
    15        afternoon, the better and more efficiently to start the
    16        following morning, then that may well appeal to me.  With
    17        that in mind, the answer to Ms. Steel's request is "yes".
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    19   MS. STEEL:   Thank you.
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    21   MR JUSTICE BELL:  I probably do not need to say this, but there
    22        has to be planning beyond the next day or two, so that you
    23        can make yourselves a diary up to 22nd November and say,
    24        "This is how we are going to fit it in."  I do not want to
    25        keep asking you every other day: "How are we doing?"  But
    26        I have got to rely on you to do that.  Someone, a very
    27        experienced advocate still at the Bar, once said to
    28        me: "Advocacy is the art of organisation."  It is exactly
    29        right.  Anyway, we will resume at 10.30 in the morning.
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