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1 removed from the court files as consideration of evidence
2 or potential evidence.
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4 It is a communication. I have not got a copy with me -- it
5 is clearly a communication between us and a potential
6 witness identifying the pleadings that we would like him to
7 comment on. I do not have it in front of me so I cannot
8 refer to it, but if the Plaintiffs can give me a reference
9 number?
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11 MR. RAMPTON: Mr. Atkinson says he thinks it is No. 6 in the
12 appendix to the Defence to Counterclaim, he thinks.
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14 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Not in the appendices for the Further and
15 Better Particulars of the Defence to Counterclaim?
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17 MR. ATKINSON: My Lord, it is in the appendix No. 2 to the
18 original Defence to Counterclaim. Obviously, it is also in
19 the appendix to the Further and Better Particulars.
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21 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Since I have found that bundle, can you take
22 me to it there?
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24 MR. ATKINSON: Yes.
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26 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think it is page 275, is it? It is about
27 six sheets in. It has 275 at the bottom in appendix 1 to
28 the Further and Better Particulars of the Defence to
29 Counterclaim.
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31 MR. ATKINSON: That is it.
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Not much harm has come of it so far because
34 I cannot read the writing anyway. Is that the one,
35 Mr. Morris?
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37 MR. MORRIS: Sorry, where are we looking at now?
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It looks like that.
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41 MR. MORRIS: Yes, that is the one. It is a letter. The person
42 has been blanked out, presumably, by the Plaintiffs. That
43 was Alexandra Banier who was in the film "Jungle Burger".
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45 MR. RAMPTON: It was not blanked out by the Plaintiffs. There
46 is absolutely no reason for Mr. Morris to say that it was,
47 given that I have explained the provenance of this document
48 so far as we are concerned. I had assumed that the
49 blanking out was done by somebody else entirely, I know not
50 who. I do not know who wrote the letter which is written
51 here. It is not signed. The heading is "London
52 Greenpeace". The penultimate paragraph says: "We, London
53 Greenpeace, believe in this, that and the other".
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55 MR. MORRIS: Actually, it may not been to Alexandra Banier, to
56 be honest, because I do not really know, but I had assumed
57 it was if it is Costa Rica. But, in any event, it is a
58 letter to a potential witness and that is quite clear ---
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not know, you see.
