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1 Mr. Tindale and then we will take stock at the end of his
2 evidence where we are on these other matters.
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4 Before I forget, the matter I wanted to say about bundles
5 is as a result of inserting extra matter in my yellow X,
6 Plaintiff's Employment Witnesses' statements, at first it
7 seemed as though I had formed a volume yellow X(A) which
8 starts with section F, tab 31, which is Mr. Tindale's
9 statement. I will come back at 11 o'clock or just after.
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11 (Short adjournment)
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13 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think, on reflection, I will just read
14 through this now. I will not make any comment now.
15 I think we should get on with Mr. Tindale and then come
16 back to this. I will hear any argument or representations
17 about it from either side before Mr. Richards is called
18 into the witness box.
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20 MR. ATKINSON: My Lord, going on to Mr. Tindale's evidence, do
21 you still want me to read the whole lot out orally of his
22 statement, or is it better for me simply to either ask him
23 to read it in the witness box to himself or ask him whether
24 he has read it recently, which he will have done?
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26 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You can take whichever course you like in
27 relation to this, Mr. Atkinson.
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29 MR. ATKINSON: Thank you. If I can call Mr. Tindale?
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31 MR. MORRIS: Can I say, it will be helpful if it is read out
32 just in case the statements are different from the ones, as
33 we have had that a few times. At least we know what is
34 being averred.
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36 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is only about a page and a bit long, is it
37 not?
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39 MR. ATKINSON: Yes, this one is, but Mr. Richards is
40 considerably longer.
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Mr. Richards, yes. I thought you were asking
43 about Mr. Tindale.
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45 MR. ATKINSON: I was thinking generally about what your Lordship
46 wanted me to do because I will be going through a number of
47 witnesses, some of whose statements are quite long.
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49 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think you should follow whichever course
50 you wish, but what I suggest is, if you think you may want
51 to take the shortest course of all which is just to say,
52 has the witness read his or her statement and is it true,
53 then decide that some time in advance and make sure that
54 Ms. Steel and Mr. Morris have a photocopy of his statement
55 you are actually going to put, so they can check with
56 theirs whether it is the same or not.
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58 MR. ATKINSON: I will do that.
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Perhaps the day before anyway, if you give a