Day 002 - 30 Jun 94 - Page 61
1 a few sections where the words had not been transcribed
from the shorthand people.
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MR. JUSTICE BELL: What you have actually on your computer is
3 the information as it is fed in. You now how to retrieve
that. You probably know better than I do how to operate
4 it from then on doing notes and things. What you are
getting each morning I think is a floppy with the
5 corrected version.
6 MISS STEEL: It is corrected overnight.
7 MR. RAMPTON: I read mine this morning. It is in a halfway
state. It has more corrections than the ----
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MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is not the final one.
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MR. RAMPTON: No. It has a lot of -- it is not the transcript
10 writers fault in any way because I speak quite quickly
sometimes and it has not always come out as I said it.
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MR. JUSTICE BELL: The floppy I got this morning, that is going
12 to be further perfected, is it?
13 MR. RAMPTON: That I do not know. All I will say is that at
this stage in the case, it will get better, it was not, I
14 think, a verbatim or entirely accurate version of what
I said, but it is quite good enough for anybody to work
15 on.
16 MISS STEEL: I was not putting the blame on anybody in the
court. It was just that I did face some difficulties last
17 night because I wanted to respond to some of the things
that Mr. Rampton had said, and although I had made notes
18 on the computer when I went back to the particular line or
whatever, it was not in long script as opposed to
19 shorthand.
20 This is generally a point in relation to the paper
transcripts that are being prepared. It would be easier
21 if the plaintiffs would honour their original agreement to
deliver them to our houses in the evening.
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MR. JUSTICE BELL: I have ruled on that already. If a may say
23 so, I am very impressed at what has been done already by
the two women who sit in front of me and are working on
24 it. What you probably find is that some of the words at
the moment which are not correct will get better as time
25 goes on. I anticipate when we get on to some terribly
technical evidence, then we are bound to run into the same
26 problem because no one could expect to know all the
technical words in advance.
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MISS STEEL: I am not trying to criticise the shorthand
28 typists. It is a point about that it is a lot easier just
to work straight from the finalised transcript that the
29 plaintiffs have available to them.
30 MR. MORRIS: If the plaintiffs could, through the court,
re-consider, go back for some further instructions.
