Day 205 - 17 Jan 96 - Page 49
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2 MR. RAMPTON: That is not in my version, either.
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4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: So there is no confusion, I can only say that
5 I would be grateful if I and the Defendants could have a
6 copy of tab 1 which has the complete paragraph C and the
7 insertion of that second amendment.
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9 MR. RAMPTON: Right.
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I would like to do now -- and it may be
12 the last thing we can deal with this afternoon -- is the
13 question of leave for any of the other witnesses whose
14 statements have been served, some of whom appear either by
15 name or description in the schedule.
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17 MR. MORRIS: There are a few bits and pieces just to raise.
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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21 MR. MORRIS: I was not sure what happened to the Avo Parcin,
22 Furazolidone pleadings.
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24 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Mr. Rampton said he would like to deal with
25 that on Monday as well. He just wants time to think about
26 it.
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28 MR. MORRIS: OK. There is just a couple of things, before Helen
29 brings something up about Mr. Fairgrieve. The Plaintiffs
30 indicated they were going to get a substantial map of
31 Costa Rica. I do not know if they have been able to do
32 that, but obviously it would be helpful if we all worked
33 from the same document. I do not know if they have?
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35 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, it is likely that by the time my
36 Costa Rican witnesses come to give evidence in the
37 beginning of March, we will have found a large size map of
38 Costa Rica. If the Defendants have one, we would like to
39 have it, but we have not got one ourselves at the moment.
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41 My Lord, I have a couple of things I need to raise as well
42 in due course.
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44 MR. MORRIS: There was one matter I wanted to bring up. It is a
45 little bit similar to the earlier point we made about
46 torture, but does not go into such a fundamental thing
47 about meaning. It was the matter, you may remember, when
48 our witness was accused of lying and we said that that is
49 not the proper thing to do from counsel, as we understood,
50 unless all the matters were going to be put to the
51 witness.
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53 If I can just refer the court to what Mr. Rampton said on
54 day 79 -- I will just get the date; Friday, 27th January --
55 when we challenged Mr. Walker, and, after some very
56 substantial cross-examination, we followed up the challenge
57 to him, and we believe we were vindicated as a result.
58 But, in any case, Mr. Rampton said on page 67 of the
59 transcript for that day, on line 21: "My Lord, in my
60 respectful submission, he must either put to Mr. Walker a
