The UK Border Agency has pledged a deadline of this summer to conclude the asylum case of a man in Coventry which has been going on for 11 years.

BBC: Said Gholampour

Given that Union Carbide settled with his parents, then refused to settle in this case, a reasonable person might conclude the judge came to the matter with some baggage regarding what companies might be expected to pay a plaintiff in such litigation.

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In India a case takes so long to conclude that witnesses get dissipated, memory frays and conviction becomes tougher.

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Mr Taylor's solicitor David McKie said it had been a complex test case which had taken almost four years to conclude.

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Cochran said he was given a list of 59 prosecution witnesses and couldn't imagine how the prosecution planned to conclude its case in that amount of time.

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