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     2   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Well, I would like you to tell me more about
     3        this tomorrow because what will be completely unattractive
     4        to me is to find just at the point when I think we are
     5        completing the evidence, hopefully in about two weeks time,
     6        you suddenly say, we do not have this or that document, so
     7        that Mr. Rampton is put to calling a witness to prove it.
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     9   MS. STEEL:  Right.  Well, I have given an indication of at least
    10        one where Mr. Rampton will have to do that if he wants to
    11        prove a document.  The pig-sheep thing.
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    13   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Well, you have got the rest of today.  You
    14        may well have time tomorrow.  You have got a day on Friday
    15        when we are not sitting.  I assume that if we finish Miss
    16        Lapport tomorrow, you must, before you go into the witness
    17        box on Monday, be able to say which, if any, documents are
    18        there apart from the one you have already indicated you do
    19        not accept.
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    MS. STEEL:  The Plaintiffs also have that time to make contact
    22        with Mr. Bishop.
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    24   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I am sorry. It is just not helpful to make
    25        comments like that.  But you must give which documents
    26        there are otherwise I will find myself in the position
    27        which I may have to say I will hear no more evidence after
    28        the middle of July except any evidence which the Plaintiffs
    29        wish to call at any stage in order to prove documents on
    30        Mrs. Brinley-Codd lists of which they have had late notice
    31        that you do not accept.  That is not a course which I would
    32        like to adopt but it is the only course which would be fair
    33        to the Plaintiffs.  So to achieve that end, you really must
    34        to avoid me having to do something like that, you really
    35        must on Monday morning before you go into the witness box,
    36        that time at the latest, tell Mrs. Brinley-Codd which, if
    37        any, documents apart from the one you have mentioned you
    38        dispute so that they have got to be strictly proved if,
    39        indeed, the Plaintiffs can strictly prove them.
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              We will adjourn now and resume with Miss Lapport's
    42        evidence tomorrow morning.
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    44        (The court adjourned to Thursday, 4th July 1996, 10.30am)
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