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     1        could have just put that to Mr. Mallinson.  Mr. Mallinson
     2        would have agreed to that and added to his gloss and we
     3        would have gone on to the next point.
     4
     5   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, might I just observe this, Ms. Steel says
     6        that all Mr. Hopkins' references appear in his statement.
     7        I have, in fact, read his statement.  I notice that on the
     8        face of this document it is said to be a reference taken
     9        from paragraph 8.9.11 of his statement.  There is no
    10        paragraph 8.9.11 in the version of Mr. Hopkins' statement
    11        which I have.  What is more, I can find no reference to
    12        this document within the body of the statement.
    13
    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let us, in fairness to Mr. Mallinson, leave
    15        this argument now.  Carry on with your cross-examination
    16        doing your best to put a proposition to him without actual
    17        reference to the document.  If when Mr. Hopkins goes into
    18        the witness box, he refers to the document (by which time
    19        Mr. Rampton will have a chance to look at it) and if
    20        Mr. Rampton decides that he wants to recall Mr. Mallinson
    21        in relation to that, then Mr. Mallinson will have to come
    22        back.  But Mr. Rampton, when he has been able to understand
    23        what it is all about, may not take that course and
    24        Mr. Mallinson will have left this court for evermore this
    25        afternoon.  So, follow that course.
    26
    27   MR. RAMPTON:  Again, my Lord, I would require a copy of this
    28        document if a question is to be based upon it.  I know it
    29        wastes time, but I am, as your Lordship will understand,
    30        acutely conscious of the risk of selective quotation.  We
    31        had an example this morning with the other Swedish
    32        document.
    33
    34   MR. MORRIS:  I will not read out the entire document or -----
    35
    36   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can you just ---
    37
    38   MR. MORRIS:  Not to be selective.
    39
    40   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  -- sift a proposition from it and do not read
    41        from the document, just put the proposition.
    42
    43   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  (To the witness):  Right, extracting from a
    44        document from the Skogsindustrierna industry and asking you
    45        a question about it:  Is it true that Jan Remrod -- who is
    46        the head of the Pulp and Paper Making Federation; is that
    47        correct?
    48
    49   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  He is Director General of this Association.
    50 
    51   MR. MORRIS:  Yes -- "makes no bones about the facts that it was 
    52        critics of forestry methods who started the ball rolling as 
    53        records the influence of forestry on biodiversity and
    54        radical changes in forestry practice."
    55        A.  He may have made such a statement, but I certainly have
    56        not seen his statement; it would be very reasonable for him
    57        to say that the environmental groups have persistently
    58        drawn attention to things that they felt were essential to
    59        be changed in forest management, and during the whole of
    60        the time while this argument was going on the forestry

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