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1 your Lordship agreed with that, that means that if the
2 Defendants want my witnesses to go first, Mr. Logan would
3 have to be transferred to that time at a date convenient to
4 him and to the court -- when, in any event, as I have
5 suggested, he is premature for the 9th and 10th anyway,
6 because of the documentation. It means of course, if that
7 did happen, that Mr. Chester would have to leave December
8 and rejoin the trial in January. That, from our point of
9 view -----
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Is that what you want or not?
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13 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I am going to be perfectly candid with
14 your Lordship, as I always am. In fact, it suits
15 Mr. Chester very well.
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What, to come in January?
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19 MR. RAMPTON: Yes; for this reason, principally, that his coming
20 in December and going over perhaps to Thursday in the last
21 week of term had meant, and would still mean, that he was
22 going to have to sacrifice his Christmas holiday with his
23 family, which, since he sees not very much of them, he was
24 willing to do but rather unhappy about. That would mean
25 that he would be able to have that holiday and then come in
26 January, and we could start the whole rainforest issue
27 afresh in January -- assuming always that we have finished
28 employment by then. I have a slightly pessimistic feeling
29 about that.
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31 Mrs. Brinley-Codd has just pointed out to me that none of
32 what I have just said takes into account the fact that
33 there are a number of the Defendants' witnesses who are
34 still unscheduled. I cannot remember their names.
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36 MR. JUSTICE BELL: One thing I was going to ask at some stage --
37 because I have not kept relating back to the list of
38 witnesses whom Mr. Morris said he was reasonably confident
39 of being able to call -- I have pencilled in the employment
40 witnesses who are referred to in either Mr. Morris' recent
41 faxes or Mrs. Brinley-Codd's recent letters. So, apart
42 from those, how many others are there in the offing, as it
43 were? I mean, is it one or two, or four or five, or what?
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45 MR. MORRIS: I did have a list. We have to call Adrian Brett
46 from Colchester, Omid Shaffi from Colchester, Harrison and
47 Harrison, the two Harrisons, from Colchester, and of course
48 Mr. Coton from Colchester. Then we have got Andrew
49 Cramner, Peter Sutcliffe, Anne Tobin and Mr. Beech. Now,
50 Mr. Patel we have not been able to track down. We are
51 still trying to do that. That may result in a Civil
52 Evidence Act Notice application. Rosemary Lovatt does not
53 really matter one way or the other, I do not think. Did we
54 read her evidence out?
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, you read her evidence.
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58 MR. MORRIS: Right. So she is done. The people from abroad,
59 the ones that are not scheduled are Michael Boland and
60 Danny Cantor -- sorry, Duncan. Duncan, we may not call; we
