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1 significantly different from what prevails in this country,
2 first of all. Then if Mr. Morris or Ms. Steel want to put
3 to you "if such and such were the position" which they may
4 have got from the evidence, then give your view on it. But
5 what I do not want you to do is just be given your head to
6 make an assessment of the evidence which has already been
7 called.
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9 MS. STEEL: I do not know whether "assessment" was the right
10 word. I think it was rather "comment" on -----
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12 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It made me anxious to hear it, which is why
13 I intervened as I did.
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15 MR. MORRIS: There are very specific practices done or not done;
16 obviously, you do not need to go through every country, but
17 you can say, for example, anything that you have noticed,
18 was something that concerned you, but if you have,
19 obviously, any personal experience or knowledge from other
20 countries as well about the prevalent conditions there,
21 that may be useful as well. Obviously, we do not want to
22 spend a long time on this but if you can point out the
23 things you were most concerned about?
24 A. Yes. I will try to do that. There is a general
25 statement about the practices in the USA. There are
26 actually some significant omissions. For instance, the USA
27 is not dealt with very fully, nor are France, Italy and
28 Greece. The American statement I saw does, I think,
29 mislead a bit in this question of what I called the stun
30 killing.
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32 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What are you referring to now?
33 A. This is a paper dated and signed 6th June 1993 from
34 Fernando Gomez Gonzales.
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36 MR. RAMPTON: That is no good; that is a witness statement, my
37 Lord.
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39 THE WITNESS: These are statements that, I understand, were
40 handed in court. You were asking -----
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42 MR. MORRIS: I am not sure if Dr. Gomez Gonzales actually took
43 his statement as read.
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45 MR. RAMPTON: He did not.
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, he did not. He gave evidence.
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49 MR. RAMPTON: I went through the matters.
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51 MR. JUSTICE BELL: My recollection is that he was not asked to
52 adopt his statement as part of his evidence-in-chief.
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54 MR. MORRIS: Can I make one general comment here, we are feeling
55 under enormous pressure to complete this evidence as
56 quickly as possible for the benefit of the court. We are
57 doing our best. It does not really help us or the witness
58 if everyone is phrenetic about it.
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am not being phrenetic. I am trying to
