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     1        other side is prepared to pay for.  We have no obligation
     2        to supply 50 pages to Ms. Steel by courier or to Mr. Morris
     3        at our expense; none.
     4
     5   MR. MORRIS:  If we are not prepared to pay for documents ----
     6
     7   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Listen, you have just started a quite
     8        unnecessary argument.  Mrs. Brinley-Codd has gone off to
     9        oil the wheels in order to provide the copies and why you
    10        should want to stir it up so that they begin to wonder
    11        whether that was a good idea or not I do not know.
    12
    13   MR. MORRIS:  I cannot see any problem with their multi-national
    14        corporation providing documents to unwaged Defendants who
    15        are trying to conduct a case and get it over with
    16        efficiently and properly.  If they have got some problem
    17        with providing documents I would like to say I do not
    18        really give a monkeys, basically.  They should provide the
    19        documents or they should pull out of the litigation.  That
    20        is my position.
    21
    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That does not become you at all, Mr. Morris.
    23
    24   MR. MORRIS:  I am just fed up with the whole subject.
    25
    26   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You were getting exactly what you wanted
    27        until you chose to lose your temper.  You just stay quiet
    28        and let Ms. Steel and Mrs. Brinley-Codd get on with it.
    29
    30   MR. MORRIS:  We are quite happy to provide ---
    31
    32   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just sit down for a moment.
    33
    34   MR. MORRIS:  -- a retrospective bill for all the documents that
    35        we have provided.
    36
    37   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, the position is this, that Ms. Steel
    38        asked for two hundred pages odd.  They have all been copied
    39        now; they have just come up from the copying room where
    40        somebody no doubt has spent some very considerable time
    41        copying them.  I am not interested in anything that
    42        Ms. Steel or Mr. Morris have to say about this.  I would
    43        appreciate your Lordship's indication what we should do
    44        with that great wodge of paper.
    45
    46   MS. STEEL:   Can I just say, because it might be that my word is
    47        in doubt here, that what happened was there were a lot of
    48        pages that I did ask to be copied, but I said specifically
    49        that there were 50 pages that I wanted for today.  That is
    50        all. 
    51 
    52   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Nothing inconsistent with what you have said 
    53        has been said.  I have never in 33 years' involvement with
    54        litigation -- 32, I will correct myself -- known such a bad
    55        tempered case.  I wish everyone on both sides of the court,
    56        if only out of anxiety for my health, would calm down and
    57        try and get on with each other.
    58
    59   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, there are reasons for a certain amount of
    60        ill-temper, at any rate so far as I am concerned.  The

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