Day 267 - 21 Jun 96 - Page 02

     
     1                                            Friday, 21st June 1996
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     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Did you have anything to say about Professor
     4        Crawford, Mr. Rampton?
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     6   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes.  I mean, I am not terribly gloomy about it.
     7        It is quite obvious, of course, I would suggest, that I
     8        need to take it to my experts.
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    10   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
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    12   MR. RAMPTON:  Although it is not wholly new, or anything like
    13        that, it is a considerable amplification of what he said in
    14        his previous statement.
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    16   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
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    18   MR. RAMPTON:  There is a good deal more science in it than there
    19        was before, and in particular there are references to data
    20        or articles or experimental work I do not we have ever
         had.  Whether my experts can or should be expected to lay
    22        hands on that material before next Tuesday, I do not know.
    23        Mrs. Brinley-Codd has already sent this report off, I hope,
    24        to Professor Naismith and Dr. Arnott.  She is trying to
    25        arrange that I am able to see them either later today or on
    26        Monday.
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    28   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
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    30   MR. RAMPTON:  But if I am not able to do that, and they are not
    31        able to help me understand the parts of this report which I
    32        do not understand for one of two reasons, either that the
    33        science is beyond me or else I do not have the material on
    34        which it is based, I may have a problem on Tuesday.
    35
    36        I hope I will not have because the last thing I would want
    37        is for either Professor Crawford to arrive and me conduct
    38        half the cross-examination and he will have to go away
    39        again -- that would be catastrophic -- or else he would be
    40        displaced entirely from Tuesday.
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    42   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I am very disinclined to have the latter,
    43        unless it would be totally unfair on your clients to call
    44        him before that.
    45
    46   MR. RAMPTON:  No.  Well, I do not know that.
    47
    48   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No.  What I would like at the moment is to
    49        have Mr. Crawford come on Tuesday morning anyway.
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    51   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes. 
    52 
    53   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Hopefully, you will be prepared or
    54        sufficiently prepared ---
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    56   MR. RAMPTON:  I hope to.
    57
    58   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  -- to have complete cross-examination but,
    59        anyway, hopefully to get as far as we can to complete him.
    60