Day 002 - 29 Jun 94 - Page 61


     
     1        a few sections where the words had not been transcribed
              from the shorthand people.
     2
         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What you have actually on your computer is
     3        the information as it is fed in.  You now how to retrieve
              that.  You probably know better than I do how to operate
     4        it from then on doing notes and things.  What you are
              getting each morning I think is a floppy with the
     5        corrected version.
 
     6   MISS STEEL:  It is corrected overnight.
 
     7   MR. RAMPTON:  I read mine this morning. It is in a halfway
              state.  It has more corrections than the ----
     8
         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is not the final one.
     9
         MR. RAMPTON:  No. It has a lot of -- it is not the transcript
    10        writers fault in any way because I speak quite quickly
              sometimes and it has not always come out as I said it.
    11
         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The floppy I got this morning, that is going
    12        to be further perfected, is it?
 
    13   MR. RAMPTON:  That I do not know.  All I will say is that at
              this stage in the case, it will get better, it was not, I
    14        think, a verbatim or entirely accurate version of what
              I said, but it is quite good enough for anybody to work
    15        on.
 
    16   MISS STEEL:  I was not putting the blame on anybody in the
              court.  It was just that I did face some difficulties last
    17        night because I wanted to respond to some of the things
              that Mr. Rampton had said, and although I had made notes
    18        on the computer when I went back to the particular line or
              whatever, it was not in long script as opposed to
    19        shorthand.
 
    20        This is generally a point in relation to the paper
              transcripts that are being prepared.  It would be easier
    21        if the plaintiffs would honour their original agreement to
              deliver them to our houses in the evening.
    22
         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I have ruled on that already.  If a may say
    23        so, I am very impressed at what has been done already by
              the two women who sit in front of me and are working on
    24        it.  What you probably find is that some of the words at
              the moment which are not correct will get better as time
    25        goes on.  I anticipate when we get on to some terribly
              technical evidence, then we are bound to run into the same 
    26        problem because no one could expect to know all the 
              technical words in advance. 
    27
         MISS STEEL:  I am not trying to criticise the shorthand
    28        typists.  It is a point about that it is a lot easier just
              to work straight from the finalised transcript that the
    29        plaintiffs have available to them.
 
    30   MR. MORRIS:  If the plaintiffs could, through the court,
              re-consider, go back for some further instructions.

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