Day 148 - 05 Jul 95 - Page 25

     
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     2   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, it was a ruling on 27th February.
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     4   MR. MORRIS:  Right.
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     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What are you asking for in relation to that?
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     8   MR. MORRIS:  The bottom paragraph on the first page, the whole
     9        of the next page and the top of page 3.  You have
    10        recognised at the top of page 3 that what they have,
    11        effectively, been asked to do was to answer an
    12        interrogatory by making a list.  It should not be an
    13        onerous task of trawling through hundreds of general files.
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    15   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let me read again what I said.  What are you
    16        saying, that you have not heard any more about that?
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    18   MR. MORRIS:  I think the Plaintiffs have indicated that they
    19        have responded, but I am not sure if they have.  So I would
    20        like maybe Mr. Rampton to identify if they have responded
         and whether we think that is satisfactory.  We have heard
    22        in evidence that there was quite a dramatic reduction in
    23        the number of suppliers sometime in the mid 80s in America,
    24        and that what we are really trying to identify is the
    25        suppliers that existed in the early 80s, early to mid 80s.
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    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Leave that then.  Wait and see what, if
    28        anything, Mr. Rampton says in due course when he replies to
    29        your applications.
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    31   MR. MORRIS:  I think that completes our application for
    32        discovery.  We did concentrate on -- sorry, there are a few
    33        others.
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    35   MS. STEEL:   There are documents referred to by Mr. Stein.  We
    36        were asking him about the turnover figures on day 144 which
    37        is 27th, it is 28th June -- I think the date is wrong on
    38        the transcript -- on page 62 -----
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    40   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Page?
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    42   MS. STEEL:  Page 62.
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    44   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  28th -----
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    46   MS. STEEL:  I think the date on the front is 27th; I think it is
    47        wrong.
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    49   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That is right.
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    51   MS. STEEL:  At the top of the page I asked him:  "So the 
    52        Company has figures on how many people left in given months 
    53        and how many people in total were employed by the Company
    54        at the end of the year?"  He said:  "Yes, the computer can
    55        do that; not by individual but by numbers, they can give me
    56        total numbers."
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    58        That is in relation to the turnover figures that we were
    59        given.  I think it would be extremely helpful (and I think
    60        the Plaintiffs ought to do it) to provide those actual