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1 MR. MORRIS: I was going to read that and I was just going to
2 read the papers that had the conclusions, which is in the
3 lead study. It is page 46 of the lead study and I am just
4 going to get the Peckham one out, because I do not need to
5 refer to really any of the charts or anything. It is a bit
6 daft not reading out the conclusions, because obviously the
7 statement just says the results are true.
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9 MR. ATKINSON: I think it is really not satisfactory, in our
10 submission, to read out just part of the survey.
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12 MR. MORRIS: I am not going to read it all out.
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14 MR. ATKINSON: It is much more sensible just to read the
15 statement out and take the survey as read.
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I want you to do is to just read the
18 short statement. When you come to submissions, you can
19 refer me to the particular parts of the survey itself. I
20 do not want bits of the survey read.
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22 MR. MORRIS: It is only the conclusion, the conclusion is four
23 paragraphs on page 46.
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25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you have any objection to the conclusion
26 Mr. Atkinson?
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28 MR. ATKINSON: Yes, I think we do on that. Because the
29 conclusion has to be read in the light of what has gone
30 before it.
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32 MS. STEEL: If the witness had come to court, which we were
33 willing to do, however the Plaintiff's did say to save time
34 we need not call her, we would have been able to read the
35 conclusion out and get it confirmed and it will not take
36 very long to read it. It is not as though it is taking
37 something out of context, because it is the conclusion.
38 The Plaintiff's have accepted that, you know, they do not
39 want to challenge this evidence. So I do not see what the
40 problem is with having it read out.
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42 MR. MORRIS: I do not see there is any legal grounds on which to
43 object.
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45 MR. JUSTICE BELL: There is a legal ground, it is this: Because
46 I am in charge of the procedure I could say I am not even
47 going to let you read out Fiona Winter's civil evidence act
48 statement because it is a waste of time. You can just say
49 it is to be taken as read.
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51 I have taken another view or course, because you asked me
52 to. That is as far as I am prepared to go. Read her short
53 statement. I do not have time to look through the whole of
54 her report now to see whether the conclusions are a fair
55 summary or not. Until I have that confidence, I am not
56 prepared to have part only of the report read out.
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58 It is not being kept under wraps, because when you come to
59 your submissions you can direct me to any particular
60 matters you rely on in it and Mr. Rampton can direct me to
