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1 to ensure that we were complying as best as we possibly
2 could with any of those regulations.
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4 Q. Yes. The inference might be drawn that it would be of
5 interest to the legal department that, in fact, the ads
6 were coming to an end, query still, whether it would be of
7 interest to you because they had agreed to terminate them
8 under pressure or just for information, so that (as we
9 know) the Attorneys General in a letter were told, were
10 they not, what the end of the programme was.
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12 MR. RAMPTON: Or simply because they wanted to avoid another
13 spat with the legal authorities.
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15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, we will see. Thank you. Do you want to
16 ask any questions of Mr. Green this evening?
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18 MR. MORRIS: No.
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20 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Thank you, Mr. Green.
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22 (The witness withdrew)
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24 We will not hear any more evidence this afternoon and the
25 question is where we go tomorrow morning.
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27 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I think I have put my position. It does
28 not rest principally on the convenience of Mr. Green or,
29 indeed, on Mr. Hawkes though, from my point of view, their
30 point of view, it would be of benefit if we could continue
31 with Mr. Green and finish him. My problem is not that; it
32 is that I would, if I am able to do so, like to be able to,
33 if I can use the word, arm Mr. Hawkes with the information
34 which I think he may need to answer cross-examination about
35 the documents which were served by the Defendants
36 yesterday.
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38 There is not time to do that much before, I would guess,
39 because one has to go to third parties for information, the
40 beginning of next week. The other route -- so far as we
41 are concerned it is the second choice but it could be done
42 -- is to recall Mr. Hawkes, he to say: "Well, I am sorry,
43 I cannot answer this, I do not know anything about it" and
44 to go away when the cross-examination is finished and then
45 to continue with Mr. Green.
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. Can you just give me some idea of what
48 sort of area the factual allegations are in?
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50 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, my Lord, I can.
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I have not seen any of the documents.
53 I agree that was my own choice, but it means that I do not
54 know what their contents are.
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56 MR. RAMPTON: At the moment they are plainly inadmissible.
57 They, as I say, in essence, constitute an extension, quite
58 a significant extension, perhaps, to the statement of
59 Sue Dibb.
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