Day 254 - 22 May 96 - Page 71


     
     1        there are bound to be loose ends and if one concentrated on
     2        tying up all the loose ends the case would never finish at
     3        all.
     4
     5   MR. RAMPTON:  I am not, I hope your Lordship would accept, one
     6        to worry about little loose ends of any kind at all.  They
     7        just go by the board.
     8
     9   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Ms. Steel and Mr. Morris, is Professor
    10        Crawford, did you say, away in the States?
    11
    12   MS. STEEL:  He is going this weekend, I think it is.  He has not
    13        gone yet.
    14
    15   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  Were you hoping that he would do a
    16        supplemental report before he went?
    17
    18   MS. STEEL:  I am hoping, but I am not 100 per cent sure it will
    19        come before he goes.
    20
    21   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No.
    22
    23   MS. STEEL:   Obviously, we will try and get it as soon as
    24        possible.
    25
    26   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Well, there we are.
    27
    28   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, can I mention just a few interlocutory
    29        matters, not to be dealt with now, but I mention them now
    30        so they do not get lost.  Mr. Atkinson is doing, or has
    31        done, the list of authorities about legal professional
    32        privilege and waiver and that will be with us tomorrow.  We
    33        have no objection to the Defendants' proposed amendment on
    34        Brazil.  I say that, making the observation that it is a
    35        pleading and a mere pleading.
    36
    37   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I will give leave for that then.
    38
    39   MR. RAMPTON:  I do not need to say anything about it at all.
    40
    41   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I will try and remember to do is -- I do
    42        not think we need reword process tab No. 1 -- what I will
    43        do is I will insert the fax of your letter you sent me in
    44        the abstract of pleadings.  I have already marked where you
    45        wanted to put it in in the abstract as it is at the moment.
    46
    47   MR. MORRIS:  Thank you.
    48
    49   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, the next thing is at some stage before --
    50        I know I have mentioned this before and I am doing it again 
    51        because I know everybody forgets about them -- at some 
    52        stage we do need to refine what the position is in relation 
    53        to what we have loosely called "the computer documents",
    54        because there may need to be rulings from your Lordship
    55        about those.  It may be that a lot of work will have to be
    56        done on both sides providing strict proof according to the
    57        attitude adopted by the parties respectively and there is
    58        not that much time left.  We wrote to the Defendants the
    59        early part of this year giving them our lists and
    60        suggesting they respond by 16th April.  As I said, I think,

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