Day 270 - 28 Jun 96 - Page 32


     
     1        Tuesday and Wednesday, if needed.  Patrick Smith from
     2        Nottingham is available for Wednesday as well if
     3        Mr. Gravett is not finished, or if he is finished, sorry.
     4        Thursday is Ms. Lapporte, Jane Lapporte.  Then we will
     5        consider whether we intend to call the two other witnesses
     6        that we have on publication, Charlie Brooke and Brian
     7        Moseley.  We may not, in fact, call them.  If we have
     8        Friday with no witness booked, we were going to ask if we
     9        could have that as a preparation day and then start the
    10        evidence of Ms. Steel on the Monday.
    11
    12   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  As you are aware, I have been very careful
    13        not to put you under any pressure as to whether you
    14        actually will give evidence; but that is not to deter you
    15        from telling me if you have made a firm decision about it.
    16
    17   MR. MORRIS:  At this stage, we both intend to appear as
    18        witnesses.
    19
    20   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  So, you would follow on straight after
    21        Ms. Steel, would you?
    22
    23   MR. MORRIS:  That is correct.
    24
    25   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What about time, Mr. Rampton, so far as you
    26        are concerned?
    27
    28   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, in what sense, do you mean?
    29
    30   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  So far as Mr. Gravett, Mr. Smith and
    31        Ms. Lapporte are concerned.
    32
    33   MR. RAMPTON:  That looks to me like an extremely leisurely
    34        schedule.  It looks to me, with the exception of
    35        Mr. Gravett, like a series of half or quarter days.
    36        Certainly Mr. Brett and Mr. Smith are very short indeed, I
    37        would have said.  Mr. Brett may be an hour and Mr. Smith
    38        less than that.  Mr. Gravett might take the best part of a
    39        day.
    40
    41   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Mr. Gravett might?
    42
    43   MR. RAMPTON:  Mr. Gravett might take the best part of a day.
    44
    45   MS. STEEL:  He is not expected to last longer than a day, then?
    46
    47   MR. RAMPTON:  I very much doubt it.  I cannot be sure because
    48        one never knows in advance.  I am very unwilling to give
    49        the Defendants the kind of assurances which I never have
    50        had from them, for one thing, but it does not look to me at 
    51        the moment, my Lord, as though Mr. Gravett should go beyond 
    52        a day.  Mr. Smith, as I have said, is very short and 
    53        Ms. Lapporte might be half a day, I suppose.
    54
    55        So it looks, as I say, like a pretty leisurely schedule for
    56        that week.  Your Lordship may feel that that does not
    57        matter.  If the Defendants are both going to give evidence,
    58        then I would still expect that the evidence would finish by
    59        Thursday the 18th because, as presently advised, I would
    60        not expect to be more than about three days in

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