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2 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I would rather they were fitted in any time
3 when we find we have an hour. What I do not want to do is
4 find that there is something we must argue about tomorrow
5 and risk it making the difference between Dr. Arnott
6 finishing his evidence and not finishing his evidence.
7 I do not know whether he will finish his evidence anyway,
8 but I do not want to have to stop at half past 3 when we
9 could finish him at half past 4 because we have to argue
10 about some interlocutory matter.
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12 MR. MORRIS: Right. It is not possible we will finish Mr.
13 Nicholson today, so there should not be any danger in
14 allowing whatever time. We will have a talk over lunch how
15 much time we may need for the urgent matters.
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If Ms. Steel wants more time I will say we
18 resume at 2.15. I would like you to come back prepared to
19 continue cross-examination of Mr. Nicholson and allowing
20 something like five or ten minutes to argue, if there is
21 still an argument, about whether Mr. Rampton should be able
22 to talk to him between the end of this afternoon and when
23 he comes back. Add to that, if you want to dispute that
24 matter -- if you do not want to dispute it you need not
25 allow any time -- something like five or ten minutes for
26 that, and make an estimate of how long your other matters
27 will take. Subtract it from quarter past 4 and tell me
28 when we should start those matters. We will resume at
29 2.15.
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31 (Luncheon adjournment)
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33 MS. STEEL: Can I just say, over the lunch break we remembered
34 we were supposed to be doing an interrogatory, so we have
35 done that, and hopefully that is in front of you now.
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. Thank you.
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39 MS. STEEL: We would like to deal with that this afternoon,
40 because obviously it relate to things that we have to sort
41 out over the break. We are trying to get witness
42 statements at the moment from other witnesses, and also
43 supplementary statements from ourselves.
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45 The other thing is that we are trying to deal with the
46 appeal, and despite the fact that on the very day that we
47 got the sealed judgment I took it up to the appeal office
48 and handed it in with the correct form, so that appeal
49 forms would be sent out straight away for us to fill in, we
50 have not actually received anything from them. Bearing in
51 mind the deadline is this Friday we would like to be able
52 to go up there before the office closes at 4.30 this
53 afternoon to sort it all out. I do not know what the
54 problem is, but it seems ridiculous it is taking 3 and a
55 half weeks to get forms sent out.
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57 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What else?
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59 MS. STEEL: I do not know if the best course is that we deal
60 with all the legal matters that are outstanding.
