Day 051 - 14 Nov 94 - Page 03
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2 MR. JUSTICE BELL: -- November?
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4 MR. RAMPTON: Yes.
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6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Having had our procedural applications on
7 Monday 21st, Tuesday 22nd, if necessary, and kept Wednesday
8 23rd blank.
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10 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, yes. It would mean, if Mr. Mallinson had
11 to come back on Wednesday 30th -- I cannot move Professor
12 Ashworth again -- Mr. Oakley would not then start until
13 Thursday 1st which would mean a sideways shunt probably of
14 the Defendants' recycling and waste witnesses to Tuesday
15 6th or so, but since Thursday and Friday -----
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If that did happen, who would be on Monday,
18 28th?
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20 MR. RAMPTON: Monday, that would still be Mr. Mallinson.
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: And then Tuesday?
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24 MR. RAMPTON: Tuesday he cannot do and, anyway, I have Mr. Stump
25 and Professor Ashworth down for Tuesday.
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Then you are suggesting that Mr. Mallinson
28 come back on Thursday?
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30 MR. RAMPTON: Finishes off on Wednesday; both Mr. Stump and
31 Professor Ashworth will be relatively short witnesses,
32 I hope; Mr. Mallinson to finish on the Wednesday, I would
33 hope; Mr. Oakley to start either on Wednesday afternoon or
34 Thursday morning, remembering, I think it is right, that
35 the Defendants' only substantial witness on recycling and
36 waste at the moment is Mr. Hopkins.
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Unless and until there is another.
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40 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, unless they reinstate a substitute for
41 Ms. Carroll. But, as your Lordship will see, Thursday and
42 Friday of that week are blank anyway.
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44 My Lord, might I in the light of that hand in a piece of
45 work which Mrs. Brinley-Codd has done over the weekend? I
46 do it for this, reason that your Lordship indicated that at
47 some stage -- this seemed to us as good a stage as any to
48 have a preliminary look at it -- your Lordship would like
49 to have a think about the progress of the case overall. We
50 have one for the Defendants.
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Shall we deal with that first and then the
53 matter you have just raised?
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55 MR. RAMPTON: It is a matter for your Lordship.
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57 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. If Mr. Mallinson were to come on Monday
58 28th and Wednesday 30th, would Ms. Dibb, looking at it as
59 best one can at the moment, be likely to be able to give
60 evidence on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th?
