Day 065 - 09 Dec 94 - Page 77

     
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     2                        (The witness withdrew)
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     4   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Are we going to break now until Wednesday
     5        morning?
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     7   MR. RAMPTON:  That was your Lordship's direction or indication,
     8        certainly  I think Mr. Gonzales arrives, I do not know,
     9        overnight on Sunday.  Every time I say something it turns
    10        out to be wrong, but anyhow, if we do not sit on Monday and
    11        Tuesday, then the Defendants will have the two days they
    12        think they need to prepare for it.  That will leave, should
    13        leave, three days in the last week of term.
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    15        Three days in the last week of term.  I do not know, I have
    16        a recollection that your Lordship mentioned the
    17        possibility, aside from interlocutory matters, of
    18        Mr. Hopkins coming back at that time.  But, apart from him,
    19        it would not be our intention to call any witnesses during
    20        that three-day period.
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    22   MR. MORRIS:  First of all, if the originals or one of the
    23        original schedules posits a return to court on Wednesday,
    24        11th, then to have the full three weeks, we would have to
    25        finish on Tuesday, 20th.
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    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I am not going to concern myself with one
    28        day.
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    30   MR. MORRIS:  It may be important for us, especially -- I think
    31        it is important and we do need to discuss the legal
    32        matters.
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    34   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let us take it step by step.  You want Monday
    35        and Tuesday to prepare for -- he is Dr. Gonzales, in fact,
    36        I noticed.  He has a doctorate, PhD.  You want Monday and
    37        Tuesday clear before we start Dr. Gonzales?
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    39   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
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    MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Is Dr. Gonzales likely to take the rest of
    42        the week?
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    44   MR. MORRIS:  I have no idea.
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    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think we ought to allow for the fact that
    47        he might do.
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    49   MR. MORRIS:  I think it would be prudent, yes.
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    51   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes.  We had not expected to have anyone else that 
    52        week. 
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    54   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If he finishes before the end of the week,
    55        I think you ought to be ready to use any available time on
    56        the other interlocutory matters.  If need be, we would have
    57        a little break, short break, so that you could decide what
    58        you wanted to talk about first.
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    60        The only question in my mind is whether Mr. Hopkins could