Day 171 - 11 Oct 95 - Page 06
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2 MR. MORRIS: That should go behind Mr. Patinson's statement,
3 that part of it.
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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7 I will merely say, so that it is in the transcript, that
8 Ms. Steel, the first named Defendant, is not in court
9 today -- she is unwell -- but has indicated to my clerk, as
10 well as, I believe, to the other parties, that she is
11 content that Mr. Morris looks after her interests for the
12 remainder of this week if she is unable to attend during
13 the remainder of this week.
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15 MR. MORRIS: She has specified the things that she was happy for
16 me to deal with.
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. So you want to go on to the documents.
19 It occurred to me there are two ways you could approach the
20 application: you could start, yourself, elaborating on the
21 list which you helpfully gave me and the ways in which you
22 say it would be helpful to have copies of those documents
23 if they are available; or, if he is willing to do so, you
24 could agree to Mr. Rampton starting by telling me -- and
25 I am not inviting him to argue it ahead of you -- what he
26 thinks his clients actually have among the documents you
27 have listed and simply, without arguing the reason, whether
28 he agrees to discovery or not.
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30 MR. MORRIS: That will be easier.
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32 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If you prepared to do that, Mr. Rampton, I am
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35 MR. RAMPTON: I am quite willing to do -----
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: -- inviting you to put forward argument, but
38 merely to say what there is and yea or nay.
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40 MR. RAMPTON: I can tell your Lordship in part what I know there
41 is, in part what I know that there is not, and in part what
42 I know there is and that I am prepared to disclose, which
43 is a third category.
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45 There is a personnel file of Mr. Logan. I am, naturally,
46 entirely willing to disclose any parts of that file which
47 may be relevant. In fact, he left; there was a
48 misunderstanding and he was wrongly dismissed, because they
49 thought he had not turned up at work and, in fact, he had
50 called in to say he was sick, which had not got through to
51 the person who took the decision to sack him for absence.
52 He was then reinstated; and our personnel file starts from
53 the day he was reinstated. But, fortunately -- and I think
54 that was in '92 or '1993, '92, I think -- it covers what
55 I call the relevant period, which is the period 1993/1994,
56 and 1994 in particular. I say that is the relevant period,
57 because that is the period to which Mr. Morris' handwritten
58 notes indicate that the specific allegations relate to.
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Are there any parts of it which are not
