Day 246 - 09 May 96 - Page 34


     
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     2   MS. STEEL:  Whatever it was that they are part of.
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     4   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The equivalent to "effect on business" or
     5        "action", or whatever, something like that?
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     7   MS. STEEL: Yes.
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     9   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you know the answer to that, Mr. Rampton?
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    11   MR. RAMPTON:  No, of course not, not off the top of my head, my
    12        Lord, no.  If there was anything which indicated beyond the
    13        existing context which is any way tolerably clearer, I
    14        would submit -----
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    16   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What do you say it relates to?
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    18   MR. RAMPTON:  It relates to response to media inquiries in
    19        relation to this case; it quite clearly does.  It is headed
    20        "Brainstorm".  It is the brainstorm of 28th February which
    21        is mentioned in earlier documents.  It starts with an
    22        asterisk, "Background Briefing:  Response to Media
    23        Inquiries" and then I cannot remember what A was, but
    24        plainly, it was either privileged or irrelevant.
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    26   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
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    28   MR. RAMPTON:  B and C are simply ways of approaching, I suppose
    29         -- I cannot give evidence about it -- but I take it to
    30        mean that they are ways of, as it were, framing the
    31        background briefing response.
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    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I would like you or Mr. Atkinson to have
    34        another look at it and if there is what I will just call a
    35        sub title by goal, communication, objectives, strategy
    36        effect on business, whatever it is, give some
    37        reconsideration of it which is something which ought to be
    38        disclosed on the face of the documents which enables one to
    39        see what B and C are directed at.
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    41   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes.  If there is anything there which gives a
    42        clue to there being something different from what they
    43        appear to be ----
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    45   MR. JUSTICE BELL: They are not clear to me what they actually
    46        are.
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    48   MR. RAMPTON:  We will certainly look again.  I do not think it
    49        is likely that anything was blanked out which would be
    50        relevant to explain what B and C are, but we will certainly 
    51        look, my Lord, yes. 
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    53   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  Carry on for the time being.
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    55   MS. STEEL:   OK.
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    57   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I have not stopped you going through these
    58        documents because you may, for all I know, turn up
    59        something which really is valuable, but remember what we
    60        are concentrating in this area of the case.

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