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     1        deal with the question of amendment next week.  I am
     2        particularly keen that we should get through advertising
     3        efficiently.  I think if you have any time at the weekend
     4        and Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to get yourself
     5        ready for it, we will get through it more efficiently.
     6
     7   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes.  It would cause my witnesses a very great
     8        deal of inconvenience if the advertising schedule were
     9        changed.
    10
    11   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I would like to do is give you the time
    12        for preparation next week, get through the advertising
    13        witnesses efficiently, and then after that find a space for
    14        arguing about the amendment to the Statement of Claim.
    15
    16   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, my Lord.  I do ask now that the Defendants
    17        should let us know -- I am reading from Mrs. Brinley-Codd's
    18        note -- the order of their advertising witnesses.
    19
    20   MS. STEEL:  There are only two.  I do not think it will cause
         Mr. Rampton any great hardship.  We have not had the time
    22        to phone them.
    23
    24   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Have you given the identities of the two?
    25
    26   MS. STEEL:  They know who they are.
    27
    28   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can you tell me?
    29
    30   MS. STEEL:  Sue Dibb and Juliette Gelatley.
    31
    32   MR. RAMPTON:  I repeat my request that it helps me in organising
    33        my cross-examination if the Defendants would be so kind at
    34        some stage before the witnesses are called (and not the day
    35        before) to tell us which order those two ladies are going
    36        to be called.
    37
    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  When will they be called?  Which week is it?
    39
    40   MR. RAMPTON:  It is the week beginning 7th November.
    41
    42   MS. STEEL:  We are not intending to keep it a secret.  I do not
    43        know why Mr. Rampton is making so much fuss about it seeing
    44        as there are only two.
    45
    46   MR. RAMPTON:  I am not making a fuss.  I am making a polite
    47        request that the Defendants extend to us the same courtesy
    48        and convenience as we have consistently done to them.
    49
    50   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think you should tell Mr. Rampton at the 
    51        beginning of the week starting Monday 31st October what 
    52        your proposal is for when they are called.  That gives you 
    53        another week and a bit and will give Mr. Rampton a week and
    54        a bit before he has to cross-examine.  That seems to me a
    55        fair compromise for both sides.
    56
    57        I did not speak as I did to invite advance discussion at
    58        this stage, but really to clear the air, so perhaps we
    59        could go on with Dr. Millstone now.
    60