Day 278 - 11 Jul 96 - Page 36
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2 Q. They do not have to be read. They can just be averred?
3 A. No, but I don't think most of them were averred either,
4 from what I can recall. I think you asked your witnesses
5 questions in chief to elicit the information, but that they
6 were not, the vast majority of them were not averred. But
7 if you are particularly concerned, no doubt Mcspotlight
8 would be willing to put them on there if you want them to.
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10 Q. What I am suggesting is, I do not know whether you knew
11 about those words when this appeared, did you?
12 A. I mean, I have now got access to the Internet so I have
13 seen this on the Internet.
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15 Q. Yes, and it is another deliberate attempt to mislead the
16 public into thinking they cannot hear both sides of the
17 case because of some legal technicality; is it not?
18 A. My understanding was that you would not want and we
19 were not allowed to put all your witness statements --
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21 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not whether the witnesses statements
22 were there. It says "CVs". It has got the usual
23 irritating business of putting an apostrophe before the S,
24 even though it is just a plural and not possessive, which
25 seems to happen even with broad-sheet newspapers, of all
26 things, nowadays. But, apart from that illiteracy, it
27 appears to be referring to their curricula vitae.
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29 MR. RAMPTON: Vitarum, my Lord.
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is right. It just shows how rotten my
32 Latin is these days. Anyway, their CVs. But you see my
33 point. I do not know that, for all I know it has just put
34 there CVs out to show how eminent they are, what good
35 people they have got giving evidence for them; do you know
36 the answer to that Miss Steel?
37 A. These were the CVs. I don't really know because I did
38 not put them on there, but--
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40 MR. RAMPTON: Why could they not give the CVs of the Plaintiff's
41 distinguished witnesses as well?
42 A. I am sure if you contacted Mcspotlight and gave them
43 all the CVs they could quite well put them on there.
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45 MR. JUSTICE BELL: All I am asking, because, for what it is
46 worth, the question is on the basis that the statements
47 were put on. But it may not be, it may just have been the
48 CVs. I don't know.
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50 MR. RAMPTON: Yes. Thank you, Miss Steel.
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52 MS. STEEL: I do have some things that I want to bring up.
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think the best thing is if we adjourn until
55 two o'clock. Then you can tell me about those then. We
56 will see what time it is when Miss Steel finishes. If it
57 is a reasonable time in the afternoon we will carry on,
58 unless you have something to say about that, Mr. Morris,
59 but we will see how long Miss Steel takes to re-examine
60 herself?
