Day 046 - 04 Nov 94 - Page 76
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2 MR. MORRIS: Right.
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4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You see, it may or may not be a problem.
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6 MR. MORRIS: We will contact her and ask her to get --
7 obviously, she has disclosed the references she has
8 specifically mentioned in her statement. We can ask her to
9 try to bring anything along which would help that she
10 wanted to refer to something.
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12 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We have to try to produce it in advance, if
13 you can; otherwise what we have -- you say, all right, you
14 can go through your evidence-in-chief but before
15 Mr. Rampton cross-examines we have to have a gap while they
16 are obtained, and then she has to come back after there has
17 been a sufficient time lapse for preparation. Do you know,
18 for instance, just what parts of the book or booklet that
19 she is going to refer to?
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21 MS. STEEL: No, we have not had a chance to go through it in
22 depth with her yet.
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24 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I have been through it in considerable
25 detail and with great care. As far as I can tell, her
26 witness statement is no more than a very superficial
27 summary of what is contained in this document. This
28 document, I therefore suspect, is going to provide the
29 foundation of her evidence in this court. It has 171
30 references.
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32 I am not asking and certainly not the day before the lady
33 arrives in the witness box as I will just refuse to
34 cross-examine, if your Lordship would permit me, if that
35 happens, but I do ask that any references in here to
36 support the large number of what might be regarded as
37 highly controversial statements which this document
38 contains are provided to us in good time, if she is seeking
39 to support those statements by reference to research of any
40 kind.
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42 MS. STEEL: I think Mr. Rampton is being really quite
43 hypocritical. Mr. Miles was supposed to be starting to
44 give his evidence today. There are some highly
45 controversial things in his statement: "Research has shown
46 that advertisements perform a valuable role of information
47 persuasion for both parents and children". We have not had
48 a single reference from Mr. Miles.
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The same applies to that, if you say what is
51 the research, and he says what it is, you are perfectly
52 entitled to say: "Well, I need to see it before
53 I cross-examine".
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55 MS. STEEL: OK. We are asking for that now. I think
56 Mr. Rampton comes across as though we are deliberately
57 trying to make things obstructive and he is getting
58 everything organised.
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Whatever he does I am not treating it in that
