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.
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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?
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25 MS. STEEL: Would half past two be all right?
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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29 (Luncheon adjournment)
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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.
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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.
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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
