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1 because I am bound to say I agree with your Lordship that
2 what matters about that advertising campaign is two
3 things: First, whether it was apt to deceive those who
4 read it and, secondly, whether it was intended to have that
5 effect. Without conceding the principle, because I may
6 assert my right to blank out in relation to other documents
7 in the future, and without conceding that principle, but in
8 order to curtail what, frankly, I have to say I regard as a
9 somewhat idiotic argument, I am instructed to disblank, if
10 I can coin a word, the bits that I blanked out so that the
11 Defendants may see for themselves why it is that they have
12 been blanked out, and why it is that they are irrelevant to
13 either of those two questions which I mentioned a moment
14 ago.
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16 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, very well.
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18 MR. RAMPTON: If they think they have had some kind of a
19 triumph, looking at the smirks on their faces by my saying
20 that, they should think again, because I have done it in
21 order simply that we should save time and it will not
22 happen again if I think it appropriate to blank out a
23 document.
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25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, you are not making any concession of
26 principle?
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28 MR. RAMPTON: No, I am not.
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30 MR. MORRIS: Can we just clarify that we are going to get the
31 complete document of all pages and all text?
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What do you mean "all text"?
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35 MR. MORRIS: I mean all the material.
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You are going to get a copy of the document.
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39 MR. MORRIS: The complete document, yes.
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41 MS. STEEL: Both the new one that has been found and the old one
42 that they had originally.
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44 MR. RAMPTON: The new one is not a new one; it is the full
45 version of the old one.
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47 MS. STEEL: If we could have both anyway. I think it would save
48 any further argument.
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50 MR. RAMPTON: It is a concession I make; it is not anything more
51 than that.
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53 MS. STEEL: I am just trying to clarify what the position is.
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55 MR. MORRIS: So does that mean that we are going to get both
56 versions?
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What do you mean, "both versions"?
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60 MR. MORRIS: Apparently, there is a new version that has been
