Day 106 - 23 Mar 95 - Page 38

     
     1        documents.  They have letters at the bottom, A to S,
     2        I think it is.  They are at the front of bundle.  I am
     3        sorry about that slight confusion, my Lord.  My bundle is
     4        in a different order.
     5
     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  At the very beginning you will see some
     7        documents which run A, B, C onwards.  Thank you very much,
     8        Mr. Rampton.  (To the witness):  Have you seen any of those
     9        in the Jarrett file?
    10        A.  The only thing I recall seeing of Jarretts are the
    11        plans and some associated documents, so, I do not think
    12        I have seen these.
    13
    14   MR. MORRIS:  I think I said Mrs. Hovi's statement maybe the
    15        plan.
    16
    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    18
    19   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I do not know, maybe I can make another
    20        helpful suggestion, I am very anxious to save time.  If
         I can start cross-examining, for example, some time
    22        tomorrow morning, we can all at least have half a day off
    23        because I shall not be very long.  Maybe it will save time
    24         -- it is entirely a matter for your Lordship -- if we had
    25        another maybe 20 minutes now for the Defendants, which
    26        evidently they have not done, to talk to Mr. North about
    27        the various categories that I have mentioned.  He should,
    28        perhaps, take the files out of court for them to glance
    29        through them with him and to see whether he has any
    30        comments to make about them.
    31
    32        Plainly, if he has no adverse comment to make about them,
    33        then he will not want to give evidence about them.  If he
    34        has any comment to make about them which he feels might
    35        help the Defendants, whether in relation to what is there
    36        or, as your Lordship has suggested, in relation to what is
    37        not there and might be there, why, then by that measure we
    38        might save an awful lot of time, rather than going through
    39        them in evidence in court.
    40
    MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think it would be useful to do that at some
    42        stage.  The question is whether we do it immediately or
    43        whether you go on a little further, Mr. Morris.  Had you
    44        decided what, if any, parts of the report on visits you
    45        wanted averred by Mr. North as part of his
    46        evidence-in-chief?
    47
    48   MR. MORRIS:  We did not really have time at lunch time to go
    49        through it.
    50 
    51   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What course were you proposing to take?  Were 
    52        you going to elicit Mr. North's evidence by question and 
    53        answer entirely?
    54
    55   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, or mostly, rather than reference to
    56        documents.  It is partly just because of the sheer
    57        organisational problem, really, of getting the documents to
    58        Mr. North and then going through them and working out -- we
    59        only really sat down with Mr. North at 9 o'clock last night
    60        was the first time we had a chance to sit down and go