Day 186 - 10 Nov 95 - Page 58
1 and Friday as days with nothing in them.
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3 MS. STEEL: I just wanted to say something else, which is that
4 Mr. Lamti, his evidence has to be translated. So it is
5 very likely that it will take longer than half a day.
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7 MR. RAMPTON: I will come back on that, if I may, in a moment,
8 but I simply do not understand that.
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let us suppose, for a moment, that Mr. Lamti
11 took the whole of Monday, or even went to, let us say,
12 mid-day on Tuesday. I mean, at the moment I find it
13 difficult to see how he should, but the last thing I want
14 to ask for tonight is the details which you have given to
15 McDonald's about the additional matters ---
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17 MR. MORRIS: I will hand them up anyway.
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: -- so I can take those away with me for the
20 weekend, but we have then got -- we have either got three
21 and a half or possibly four days with nothing in them.
22 Really what we need to do is somehow or other fill a couple
23 of them anyway.
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25 MR. MORRIS: What we really have is the space vacated by us to
26 save not to call Mrs. Villneuve-Gallaiz. So ....
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I appreciate that, but that does not mean to
29 say you do not fill it with something else.
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31 MR. MORRIS: Yes. Actually I was looking for someone to take
32 her place in any case. There is also the outstanding
33 Mr. McGee's Civil Evidence Act notice.
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35 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think what you should be prepared to do is
36 finish off your Civil Evidence Act meaning on employment
37 anyway.
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39 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: There is not much to argue about Mr. McGee
42 when one actually comes to it.
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44 MR. MORRIS: No. Then we have to read it out into the record as
45 well.
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. But what is there, a half day of
48 reading altogether at the most?
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50 MR. MORRIS: Probably half a day.
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Even allowing for what is admissible, it
53 cannot be more than -- it may well be less than an hour and
54 it could not possibly be more than as much as half a day,
55 I would not have thought.
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57 MR. MORRIS: I will try and schedule a witness there. The other
58 thing is that, just for the record, I have got Mr. Brett on
59 Friday, 11th December. I am trying to put all the
60 Colchester people -- sorry, Monday, 11th December. You
