Day 132 - 07 Jun 95 - Page 50
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2 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Is there any reason why you should not lend
3 that to Mr. Morris and Ms. Steel for the time being if they
4 want to look at it?
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6 MR. RAMPTON: No. I would resist that in the normal way on the
7 basis it is probably a document we went bought up the road
8 in Holborn the other day.
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You said it was the last one.
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12 MR. RAMPTON: It was their only copy. I will certainly lend it
13 to them but I do want it back.
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15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I suggest you do, you borrow that for
16 the time being, do not mark it, take a photocopy of
17 anything which you think you may want to use and then of
18 course you can mark it as much as you like, but keep a
19 clean copy as well in case you need to reproduce it in the
20 future. Unless Mr. Rampton raises any objection, since
21 that report has been referred to by Mr. Purslow, I do not
22 see why I should not take any other information from it
23 which might be relevant, provided it is clear what the
24 meaning of the document is. If anything in a document like
25 that is capable of more than one meaning, then you might
26 have to ask a witness what they make of it, but if it is
27 perfectly clear then you can refer to it later anyway.
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29 MR. RAMPTON: In the last resort the meaning of all documents in
30 the case, unless it is a question of intention, is for your
31 Lordship anyway.
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I appreciate that. It is only if something
34 might be ambiguous and a particular witness could give a
35 bit of background which helped one to the right
36 interpretation.
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38 MR. RAMPTON: Yes. My Lord, I do not know what order your
39 Lordship would wish to take things in this afternoon.
40 I would only say I would like that back next week, please.
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I suggest you do is if you have a look
43 at it, copy what you think you need or ask someone else to
44 do it for you, and bring it back on Monday morning.
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46 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I do have now (your Lordship may say at
47 last) the Jarrett statement with its appendices. The only
48 things that are still missing are the two new plans. The
49 reason they are still missing is not that we do not have
50 the originals, we do. It is that they are being coloured
51 copied at Barlows at this moment. It has to go outside.
52 They cannot do it.
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Does it go to the place across the road here
55 in Carey Street?
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57 MR. RAMPTON: It is somewhere in the City I expect. One is very
58 big and the other is a bit smaller. There is quite a lot
59 of detail on it. It will be ready by tomorrow morning, so
60 if we may send it to Mr. Stiles. Obviously we will send it
