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     1        but, my Lord, I do most earnestly resist any suggestion
     2        that we should have to produce an edited version of the
     3        video tape corresponding with this transcript, simply
     4        because it takes ages to do and it costs a lot of money;
     5        because that is all we would do.  If we are right about
     6        relevance they would not get the whole video anyway; they
     7        would only get an edited version of it.  My Lord, that is
     8        the transcript.
     9
    10   MR. MORRIS:  It may be better to deal with it another day.
    11
    12   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think you had better add it on to the end
    13        of what you are coming back to later in the week and I will
    14        have a look at this in the meantime.
    15
    16   MR. RAMPTON:  I would only say that the handwritten names on it
    17        are Mr. Atkinson's.  It is his writing.  My Lord, can I say
    18        this about Heathrow and deadlines.  On the view I take, and
    19        I will tell your Lordship about my prognosis for the
    20        evidence when it is convenient -- I do not know when -- the
    21        Defendants will not be able to make any use of those
    22        Heathrow documents for a very long time to come anyway;
    23        they will not have to make use of them.  So there is not,
    24        perhaps, a lot of point in imposing deadlines just for the
    25        sake of it.
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No.  The only point is that then we do
    28        remember that the matter has to be dealt with.
    29
    30   MR. RAMPTON:  I know.  We have not forgotten.  Mrs. Brinley-Codd
    31        keeps what I call rolling shopping lists of everything that
    32        has to be done, gets written down, and is attended to
    33        usually sooner rather than later.  Some things, of course,
    34        slip past and so on.
    35
    36        Without going into the question of scheduling now, but
    37        since we are not going to be here tomorrow, so that
    38        everybody should have time to think about it tonight, may
    39        I hand in what I propose not as a set schedule or a fixed
    40        schedule, or anything like that, just what I regard as a
    41        reasonable -- and when I say "reasonable" I mean in the
    42        sense that it is not going to put too much pressure on the
    43        Defendants -- and, I am afraid, a rather gloomy prognosis
    44        about when I believe the evidence will finish
    45        realistically, and perhaps just say a word about it to your
    46        Lordship now so that the Defendants can think about what
    47        I have said before we meet again on Thursday.
    48
    49        My Lord, the only diagonal lines that I have drawn
    50        represent fixed legal or public holidays.  I have not 
    51        worked into this any specific days for preparation or for 
    52        rest and recreation, or whatever.  There is nothing left 
    53        this term except Thursday, so far as your Lordship is
    54        concerned, possibly a bit of Friday.  I have fixed
    55        Mr. Donald Munro for Tuesday, 16th in the belief that there
    56        could not be any valid reason why he should not come and he
    57        is not going to be blocked by any other witness and he
    58        comes before the Defendants' rainforest witnesses.  He
    59        should not be more than two days, but I have given him two
    60        days just in case, as I did for Mr. Woolf.
 
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