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1 other side is prepared to pay for. We have no obligation
2 to supply 50 pages to Ms. Steel by courier or to Mr. Morris
3 at our expense; none.
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5 MR. MORRIS: If we are not prepared to pay for documents ----
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7 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Listen, you have just started a quite
8 unnecessary argument. Mrs. Brinley-Codd has gone off to
9 oil the wheels in order to provide the copies and why you
10 should want to stir it up so that they begin to wonder
11 whether that was a good idea or not I do not know.
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13 MR. MORRIS: I cannot see any problem with their multi-national
14 corporation providing documents to unwaged Defendants who
15 are trying to conduct a case and get it over with
16 efficiently and properly. If they have got some problem
17 with providing documents I would like to say I do not
18 really give a monkeys, basically. They should provide the
19 documents or they should pull out of the litigation. That
20 is my position.
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That does not become you at all, Mr. Morris.
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24 MR. MORRIS: I am just fed up with the whole subject.
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26 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You were getting exactly what you wanted
27 until you chose to lose your temper. You just stay quiet
28 and let Ms. Steel and Mrs. Brinley-Codd get on with it.
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30 MR. MORRIS: We are quite happy to provide ---
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32 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just sit down for a moment.
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34 MR. MORRIS: -- a retrospective bill for all the documents that
35 we have provided.
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37 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, the position is this, that Ms. Steel
38 asked for two hundred pages odd. They have all been copied
39 now; they have just come up from the copying room where
40 somebody no doubt has spent some very considerable time
41 copying them. I am not interested in anything that
42 Ms. Steel or Mr. Morris have to say about this. I would
43 appreciate your Lordship's indication what we should do
44 with that great wodge of paper.
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46 MS. STEEL: Can I just say, because it might be that my word is
47 in doubt here, that what happened was there were a lot of
48 pages that I did ask to be copied, but I said specifically
49 that there were 50 pages that I wanted for today. That is
50 all.
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Nothing inconsistent with what you have said
53 has been said. I have never in 33 years' involvement with
54 litigation -- 32, I will correct myself -- known such a bad
55 tempered case. I wish everyone on both sides of the court,
56 if only out of anxiety for my health, would calm down and
57 try and get on with each other.
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59 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, there are reasons for a certain amount of
60 ill-temper, at any rate so far as I am concerned. The
