Day 278 - 11 Jul 96 - Page 37


     
     1        A.  Can I just ask, because yesterday I got the transcript
     2        and I went through it so that -- because while I am being
     3        questioned it is actually really hard to make a note of
     4        things that I want to come back on.  So I have done that
     5        for yesterday but it would actually be very helpful if I
     6        could look through the screen during lunchtime.  I don't
     7        know whether it would be possible to have a bit longer, in
     8        fact.
     9
    10   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is possible to leave Caseview on is it?
    11        What I suggest you do is, Mr. Riley has kindly said that he
    12        will stay in court after you have both had a chance to have
    13        a bit of a break.  Make your arrangement with Mr. Riley,
    14        that is not through any mistrust of you, but if a public
    15        court is left unlocked and basically empty save for perhaps
    16        just counsel or someone working in it, it is normal to ask
    17        the usher to stay for security reasons so strangers do not
    18        walk in and help themselves to look at papers.  Allow a bit
    19        of time to have some refreshment, and then tell me when you
    20        would like to resume.  I obviously do not want it to be
    21        later than necessary, but I want you to have an opportunity
    22        to look through what you want to look through.
    23        So, what time do you suggest?
    24
    25   MS. STEEL:  Would half past two be all right?
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    28
    29                          (Luncheon adjournment)
    30
    31   MS. STEEL:  Thank you for the additional time.  It is going to
    32        be a bit haphazard, but the first one that I wanted to come
    33        back to was the bit about the Bruce Shannon bit.  Just that
    34        when I said about the quote in the pleadings was different
    35        to the article but not completely different, what I mean is
    36        that it would be a fairly easy error to make and that in my
    37        view it is not something that is a deliberate deception, it
    38        is more likely to be, as in plenty, lots, of the other
    39        pleadings on both sides, there is errors from time to
    40        time.  I did not do the pleadings, I can't specifically
    41        remember where it is from, so I do not even know whether it
    42        is an error of the person doing the pleadings or whether it
    43        is an error of whoever got a kind of intermediate article
    44        or something.
    45
    46             It is just that, you know, I don't believe that that
    47        is a deliberate mistake.  The second thing is about the
    48        rainforests.  I am very tired, and I do find it hard to
    49        remember where everything is that I have seen and read and
    50        not everything is, in fact, in the bundles anyway, as we
    51        have seen in the last week.  "Death of the Trees" by Nigel
    52        Dudley, which was a book that I had seen at the time and
    53        was referred to my recollection in the late 80s as being
    54        one of the source materials, was not in the trial bundles.
    55        There is undoubtedly -- so they are stuff that we have read
    56        between us, certainly stuff that I have read.
    57
    58             The book from my parents, for example, that was not in
    59        the original list of documents despite the fact that I have
    60        had it since the mid 1980's.  I had forgotten about it, and

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