Day 146 - 03 Jul 95 - Page 09
1 MR. RAMPTON: We would go on providing your Lordship with both
2 CaseView and the transcripts. Your Lordship has not been
3 misreporting the case. It would not be our decision to
4 mete out punishment to the judge. It is not to punish the
5 Defendants or to score points off them; it is simply that
6 my clients are fed up with having the evidence
7 misrepresented in this blatant way. It is as simple as
8 that. It is as much, in fact, by selection as it is by
9 misquotation, and the use of suggestive or slanted
10 terminology in the body of the report.
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12 My Lord, may I pass to what is No. 6 on my agenda? No. 6
13 has, in fact, now been dealt with because as I was speaking
14 Mr. Morris handed Mrs. Brinley-Codd what we had asked for,
15 which were legible transcripts of Harriet Lamb's
16 interviews.
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18 MR. MORRIS: There is one for the Judge as well. It is in case
19 you could not read the Harriet Lamb interviews.
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21 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Where do they go?
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23 MR. RAMPTON: Section 29 of Defendants' witness bundle No. 2, or
24 behind Miss Lamb's statement.
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26 MR. MORRIS: Can I take the opportunity also to give you a copy
27 of the Big Mac book which you said you did not have a copy
28 of. (Handed).
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30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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32 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, next is what is No. 2 on the agenda.
33 This arises from something which Ms. Steel said on day
34 110. Like your Lordship, I cannot cope with day numbers.
35 It is 29th March which is week 30.
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. I only brought down certain of the
38 daily transcripts; I am not sure I actually have those.
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40 MR. RAMPTON: Your Lordship should have that one because it is
41 where nearly all Ms. Hovi's evidence is to be found.
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43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I did not bring that down; I will make sure
44 I have ----
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46 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I will not get to her before the
47 adjournment anyway. Can I pass up transcript, day 110? It
48 is page 21 and there had been a general discussion.
49 I think the thought occurred to your Lordship at some stage
50 that we might approach some of the publication evidence
51 sooner rather than later. In the end we veered off from
52 that and it stays where it is. But there is, I do not say
53 it is a chance remark made by Ms. Steel, but it certainly
54 set alarm bells ringing in our heads. It starts at line
55 24.
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57 I was dealing with witnesses and Ms. Steel said: "It is
58 not what I am now saying. I have said this all along. The
59 fact is that the interrogatories were not served until
60 years after the demonstration." This is a perfectly normal
