Day 165 - 27 Sep 95 - Page 50


     
     1        witnesses you wish to call to the end of your case without
     2        undue breaks, and then proceeding to the Defendants calling
     3        all their witnesses without undue break.  I do not think
     4        anyone in the court wants to be reduced to that final
     5        solution, but that is the final solution.
     6
     7        Is there anything more we can say at this stage?  I only
     8        entered into this, as it were, to try to help find a course
     9        of events which is the least inconvenient to the parties.
    10        It would not normally be my task at all.  Is there anything
    11        more that anyone wants to say about scheduling at this
    12        stage?
    13
    14   MR. MORRIS:  Just advance notice, and this will make absolutely
    15        no difference, half an hour's difference perhaps, to the
    16        schedule probably, that Rosemary Lovett we cannot trace and
    17        we will be putting a Civil Evidence Act notice on when
    18        I get to down to writing it on the grounds that I cannot
    19        trace her.  If you remember she was the one who saw the
    20        memo.  I do not think the whole case depends upon her
    21        evidence one way or the other, but she sums up the complete
    22        total of her evidence in her statement.
    23
    24        Mr. Patel, who is a very important witness for us again, we
    25        cannot trace at all.  That may have to be the subject of a
    26        Civil Evidence Act notice.  I am sill trying to trace him.
    27        That is just advance notice of why some names are not
    28        appearing on our list.  We are still trying to trace some
    29        of them.
    30
    31   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Are they the two Ms. Steel said you might
    32        want to call in addition?
    33
    34   MR. MORRIS:  No, that was Shaun Rocheck and Keith Baker who we
    35        have already informed the Plaintiffs in a letter who were
    36        in addition to letter we wrote on 7th September.  Mr. Patel
    37        I think was a Manager, certainly Manager grade at a number
    38        of McDonald's and wrote a fairly extensive statement for
    39        us.  There are a number of other outstanding people who we
    40        are still in the process of contacting, but with Mr. Patel
    41        all the lines have gone dry, if you like, in terms of
    42        tracing him.
    43
    44        We will keep the Plaintiffs informed of any developments
    45        relevant to this subject.  I do not think we have anything
    46        else to say on scheduling.
    47
    48   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The first thing for you to concentrate on is
    49        to do your very best to fill Wednesday 18th and 19th
    50        October, two days of the half term and the week beginning 
    51        Monday, 30th October. 
    52 
    53   MR. MORRIS:  We have nothing else to raise today.
    54
    55   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I will adjourn now and we will resume at
    56        10.30 in the morning with Mr. Atkinson.
    57
    58             (The court adjourned until the following day).
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