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                                                                  DAY 216
 
                                             KEVIN HARRISON, Re-examined:
 
 
 
     1        today and tell them what restaurant he works at; and
     2        I would like it to be recorded that I expect them to
     3        contact the restaurant immediately and ask them not to
     4        destroy any documents or lose any documents as from the
     5        moment that they get to know which restaurant it is.  So
     6        that would be very useful.
     7
     8   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You must get on and have his statement and
     9        serve it, if you are going to say to me you wish to call
    10        him.  That is the reality of the situation.
    11
    12   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
    13
    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Were there any other things?
    15
    16   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, there are several other things.  One general
    17        point:  I notice a long list of witnesses under
    18        "environment" who were the subject of Civil Evidence Act
    19        notices and who now appear to be proposed as live
    20        witnesses.  One of the things I am going to have to do in
    21        the light of that is to go through each of those
    22        statements, because my present belief is that they are, in
    23        large part, irrelevant; and, that being so, whilst it may
    24        be that there is a residue of evidence that they can give,
    25        if I am right about that, the Defendants may need to think
    26        quite carefully whether it is worth the trouble and expense
    27        of bringing people over for what might be five or 10
    28        minutes' evidence not cross-examined; because that is very
    29        likely what will happen if I am right about the relevance
    30        of the evidence of many of these people.
    31
    32        Mr. Shane is an obvious example; so is Mr. Parker.
    33        Mr. Helen not so, because he made (inaudible).  I doubt the
    34        relevance, despite their great eminence, of much of what
    35        Mr. Secret and Mr. Mombeo said.  I am bound to say I am
    36        baffled to a large extent to see what relevance it has to
    37        any issue in this case; and I do say to some extent
    38        Mr. Carier.
    39
    40        I give you warning now that I am not going to sit here
    41        willingly and spend a lot of time of the court and a lot of
    42        money of my clients while these people strut their
    43        expertise on matters which have no relevance to the case.
    44
    45   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I would like you to do is make a
    46        decision on which you wish to object to on that basis.
    47
    48   MR. RAMPTON:  I will do that.
    49
    50   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  So that, if need be, I can hear argument and 
    51        make any ruling which I think is appropriate. 
    52 
    53   MR. RAMPTON:  I think it is inevitable that your Lordship will
    54        have to make rulings before they get here.  Mr. Mitchell,
    55        I am almost certain, is completely irrelevant and
    56        inadmissible.  Why he comes under publication, I have no
    57        idea.  I have grave doubts about the relevance of
    58        Mr. Gardner, who is a New Zealander.  Those are two more
    59        that I think I shall have to raise with your Lordship
    60        before ever they come 12,000 miles for no purpose.
 
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