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1 within the next day or two, now that I have brought it to
2 your attention, I want you to say, 'Yes, it is admitted,
3 that document is admitted.'
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5 MR. MORRIS: It is the same. I can say we do not have any
6 objection to this document. I do not know why we objected
7 to it, or even if we did.
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9 MS. STEEL: It might be that we got a number wrong, say, it was
10 supposed to be pink 8, 12, or something like that.
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12 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can I take that as an agreed document for
13 whatever conclusion or conclusions I may draw from it?
14 That is all I am asking.
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16 MR. MORRIS: Yes, that is fine so far as we are concerned.
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You agree with that Ms. Steel?
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20 MS. STEEL: Yes.
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22 MR. RAMPTON: What I was looking for was the correspondence.
23 I will not waste your Lordship's time.
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25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am not interested in what has past under
26 the bridge.
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28 MR. RAMPTON: I am, to this extent, that whether it was a
29 mistake or not, and plainly it was not one of the documents
30 that was agreed, that is quite clear from Mr. Morris'
31 letter, because we sent them a list of all the documents we
32 suggested they agree and this was one of the ones that was
33 not included in their assents, and so therefore I have
34 ignored it. I do not see what else I could do, it
35 certainly does not prove itself and it is certainly not
36 malicious in any way at all.
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Are you prepared to agree it?
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40 MR. RAMPTON: I cannot tell your Lordship that without looking
41 back at Mr. Hawke's evidence about it. I do remember there
42 was quite a lot of evidence about it, nine or ten pages
43 I think. My recollection of the effect of the evidence is
44 he says, well, it is all very well looking at the blank
45 oblongs, but you cannot tell from that what the number is
46 within each blank oblong.
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I understand all that, there was lots of
49 argument about what the figures on it actually meant, or
50 what kind of conclusion one should draw from it.
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52 MR. RAMPTON: That is right. If the question is, do I agree
53 that it is a McDonald's document which Mr. Hawke's was
54 familiar with, the answer is obviously yes, I do. Do
55 I have any objection to your Lordship looking at that part
56 of the evidence? Obviously, the answer is, no, I do not.
57 I am only, in a sense, apologising because I have by one
58 means or another been misled into thinking it did not
59 arise.
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