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     1        whether or not we want to ask him questions about them.
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     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What sort of document names Mr. Carroll? What
     4        are you thinking of?
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     6   MS. STEEL:   For example, I was going to ask questions there but
     7        in the counterclaim bundle, there was a memo written by
     8        Mr. Carroll; a report on the demonstration on the 16th
     9        October 1989.  I was going to ask him questions about that.
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    11   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Why should you not ask him questions about
    12        that?
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    14   MS. STEEL:  The point I am trying to make is that I happened to
    15        have come across that when I was scanning through the
    16        documents when we were trying to prepare for our leave to
    17        amend, but I have not had a chance to look through the
    18        bundles properly to see if there is anything else I want to
    19        ask Mr. Carroll about.
    20
    21        I did make it clear at the end of last term that I wanted
    22        to inspect all the Plaintiffs' original documents before
    23        publication started and possibly to make a further
    24        statement and to prepare -- I do not know whether you have
    25        the transcript for Day 235?
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    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No.  I doubt I have.
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    29   MS. STEEL:   I could hand it up if you want to read it?
    30
    31   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No.  You read it out to me.
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    33   MS. STEEL:   OK.  It was during the debate about whether if we
    34        did not schedule our ----
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    36   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, I have it.  Which page?
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    38   MS. STEEL:   On page 49.  Starting at line 58, I start with:
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    40             "Can I just say -- I mean, obviously, we are
    41             going to do that so this probably will not
    42             arise..."
    43
    44        That is with reference to the suggestion that if we do not
    45        manage to schedule all our rainforest witnesses in the time
    46        allotted and there is big gaps, then the Plaintiffs are
    47        going to call their publication witnesses instead.
    48
    49        Then I said:
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    51             "Obviously we are going to do that," 
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    53        i.e. schedule our witnesses to fill those weeks.
    54
    55             "... but in case it does arise again -- before
    56             the publication starts, I actually want to go to
    57             the Plaintiffs' offices and inspect all the
    58             originals of the documentation relating to
    59             publication and, obviously, that is going to
    60             take at least a couple of days, very probably
 
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