Day 278 - 11 Jul 96 - Page 36


     
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     2   Q.   They do not have to be read.  They can just be averred?
     3        A.  No, but I don't think most of them were averred either,
     4        from what I can recall.  I think you asked your witnesses
     5        questions in chief to elicit the information, but that they
     6        were not, the vast majority of them were not averred.  But
     7        if you are particularly concerned, no doubt Mcspotlight
     8        would be willing to put them on there if you want them to.
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    10   Q.   What I am suggesting is, I do not know whether you knew
    11        about those words when this appeared, did you?
    12        A.  I mean, I have now got access to the Internet so I have
    13        seen this on the Internet.
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    15   Q.   Yes, and it is another deliberate attempt to mislead the
    16        public into thinking they cannot hear both sides of the
    17        case because of some legal technicality; is it not?
    18        A.  My understanding was that you would not want and we
    19        were not allowed to put all your witness statements --
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    21   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I do not whether the witnesses statements
    22        were there.  It says "CVs".  It has got the usual
    23        irritating business of putting an apostrophe before the S,
    24        even though it is just a plural and not possessive, which
    25        seems to happen even with broad-sheet newspapers, of all
    26        things, nowadays.  But, apart from that illiteracy, it
    27        appears to be referring to their curricula vitae.
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    29   MR. RAMPTON:  Vitarum, my Lord.
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    31   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That is right.  It just shows how rotten my
    32        Latin is these days.  Anyway, their CVs.  But you see my
    33        point.  I do not know that, for all I know it has just put
    34        there CVs out to show how eminent they are, what good
    35        people they have got giving evidence for them; do you know
    36        the answer to that Miss Steel?
    37        A.  These were the CVs.  I don't really know because I did
    38        not put them on there, but--
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    40   MR. RAMPTON:  Why could they not give the CVs of the Plaintiff's
    41        distinguished witnesses as well?
    42        A.  I am sure if you contacted Mcspotlight and gave them
    43        all the CVs they could quite well put them on there.
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    45   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  All I am asking, because, for what it is
    46        worth, the question is on the basis that the statements
    47        were put on.  But it may not be, it may just have been the
    48        CVs.  I don't know.
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    50   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes.  Thank you, Miss Steel.
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    52   MS. STEEL:  I do have some things that I want to bring up.
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    54   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think the best thing is if we adjourn until
    55        two o'clock.  Then you can tell me about those then.  We
    56        will see what time it is when Miss Steel finishes.  If it
    57        is a reasonable time in the afternoon we will carry on,
    58        unless you have something to say about that, Mr. Morris,
    59        but we will see how long Miss Steel takes to re-examine
    60        herself?

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