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     1        relevance will appear as I go through Mr. Nicholson's
     2        evidence.  My Lord, Mrs. Brinley-Codd will hand in a guide
     3        as to where those documents should go so Mr. Stiles can
     4        deal with them in due course.
     5
     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I would like to say something before you do
     7        which I am reminded -- it was on my mind to say but I am
     8        reminded -- by the reference to Mr. Campbell.  Coming to
     9        the question of employment, we are obviously coming into an
    10        area where there are a number of Civil Evidence Act
    11        witnesses.  I would like you, Mr. Rampton and Mr. Morris
    12        and Ms. Steel, as you each call your own witnesses or at
    13        any convenient time, to draw specifically to my attention
    14        each Civil Evidence Act witness upon whom you actually
    15        propose to rely.
    16
    17        It may be in the case of all parties that it will be all
    18        the Civil Evidence Act witnesses, but I would like them at
    19        least to be mentioned so that they are on the transcript
    20        and, if need be, I can make a note, so that I do not omit
    21        to register that that witness's statement is actually a
    22        part of the evidence in the case.
    23
    24        At some stage before the evidence finishes, I would like
    25        all the parties to make sure that I have made a note of the
    26        Civil Evidence Act witnesses upon whom they rely in other
    27        compartments of the case.  Some I have already noted.
    28        Mr. Simmons, for instance, was read and there was the
    29        gentleman whose statement on incineration was put in when
    30        Dr. Lipsett was called.
    31
    32        But I am not confident I have a note of others as they have
    33        cropped up in the past.  The same applies to documents in
    34        so far as the documents are tantamount to witness
    35        statements.
    36
    37   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, we will certainly do that; whether we can
    38        do the whole exercise in the near future.
    39
    40   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I am not asking that.  I do not want to go
    41        away at the end of the day -- it is obviously a long way
    42        away yet -- to write my judgment and completely overlook
    43        some witness or important document because it is the
    44        subject of a Civil Evidence Act Notice and has not actually
    45        been mentioned in open court.
    46
    47   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I certainly will want to be starting to
    48        consider the form of my closing speech after the end of
    49        July.  I would like to be able to put your Lordship in a
    50        position to know up to that date, at least, all the 
    51        material we rely on, in one way or another, which has not 
    52        been given in oral evidence.  I would like to do it then. 
    53        I would like to do it earlier so far as employment is
    54        concerned.  I have no doubt there will be quite a lot of
    55        gaps in employment evidence between now and the end of
    56        July.
    57
    58   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  One way it occurs to me to do, when, for
    59        instance, we come back to a topic because there is a loose
    60        end witness to be called or recalled, then take stock of

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