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1 the 25th and 26th.
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3 MR. RAMPTON: The only thing I would add, while your Lordship is
4 on Bath, as it were, is, as your Lordship knows, we
5 prepared some tables and sent them to everybody. I do not
6 call it service, because it is not an official document of
7 any kind. If and in so far as the Defendants are able to
8 say that they agree the figures, such as the figures are --
9 and it clearly stated that the figures are designed to
10 represent -- it would be an enormous help if we were told
11 or if they did that because, obviously, if those figures
12 and those tables were agreed, it will save an enormous
13 amount of time in court hacking through the actual
14 documents. We are not saying they should say now; I am
15 just saying that, in advance, if they accept those are
16 accurate.
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I suggest is that you get yourself --
19 you have got tomorrow and Friday, apart from any time at
20 the weekend. I appreciate you may well want to do some
21 work on Bath and other matters, but what I suggest is, you
22 get yourself prepared for Brazil, so that if we have an
23 early afternoon in the first two or three days of next week
24 you can just stand up and produce your argument with regard
25 to Brazil interrogatories.
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27 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, anyway, next Friday, the 26th, is a very
28 likely candidate for interrogatories, because I doubt
29 whether Mr. Logan will last two whole days.
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I suggest, Mr. Morris, is that you get
32 ready with your preparation and any paperwork you need to
33 put before me, so that at a moment's notice on any
34 afternoon next week, if we find we have time, you can press
35 your application.
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37 MR. MORRIS: Yes, will do. We will come back to the schedule a
38 bit. Shall we try and do it in the order of the list?
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40 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just tell me the topic on your list you want
41 to do next.
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43 MR. MORRIS: It is probably best to go through it. The next one
44 is Ryan and Lynval; just that, really, we are able to read
45 those out as Civil Evidence Act notices at any stage as a
46 gap filler. That is all we have to say on that, really.
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: So, there has been no counternotice in
49 respect of that?
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51 MR. RAMPTON: No, my Lord. Mr. Ryan is in America; we have
52 established that. Mr. Lynval, we cannot find, so we cannot
53 sensibly serve notice. So far as Lynval's statement is
54 concerned, there are two passages whose reading out I would
55 object to in due course, but I will not make that objection
56 now unless anybody wants me to.
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let us see how we go the rest of this
59 afternoon. Yes.
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