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     1        enquiries, then I will have to consider whether she should
     2        leave the witness box and come back in due course.
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     4   MR. RAMPTON:   Yes.
     5
     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   But I would rather wait and see.
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     8   MR. RAMPTON:   Of course, I understand that.  I am only giving
     9        early warning of that merely as a possibility.  I am not
    10        even saying it will be so.  That is the reason I am
    11        grateful to have tomorrow off because then I can start
    12        doing some work on that.
    13
    14   MR. MORRIS:   Just to say that Fiona Watson did provide us with
    15        some further documents which I have served on the
    16        Plaintiffs today, and it may be that the answer to
    17        Mr. Rampton's query may be buried in those documents.  I
    18        have not had a chance to look at them.
    19
    20   MR. RAMPTON:   My Lord, they are mostly in Portuguese, so it
    21        does not help me very much.
    22
    23   MR. MORRIS:   Well, it does, because one of them is one that has
    24        already been served, in fact, which is the map of Matto
    25        Grosso do Sul with the areas of indigenous people.
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   That is behind her already, is it not?
    28
    29   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, and Mr. Rampton might find that quite helpful
    30        anyway.
    31
    32   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let us see.  If there is anything you think I
    33        should have there before Monday you had better make sure
    34        someone has a copy.
    35
    36   MR. MORRIS:   I was trying to avoid giving you documents you
    37        need not have.
    38
    39   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   I am quite content to receive it on Monday.
    40        Was there anything else?
    41
    42   MR. RAMPTON:   Not so far as I am concerned.
    43
    44   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The only other thing I would say to Ms. Steel
    45        and Mr. Morris is with regard to their witnesses who are
    46        going to go into the witness box or are going to be treated
    47        as Civil Evidence Act witnesses.  I have been content, so
    48        far, to let you read statements rather than just have them
    49        verified by a witness from the witness box or accept them
    50        as being put in under the Civil Evidence Act, and I am 
    51        content that that should be so for the future so far as 
    52        your environment witnesses are concerned, where the 
    53        statements are of manageable length.  But where either the
    54        statements are very long or they incorporate into them
    55        magazine articles or chapters from books, or anything of
    56        that kind, which happens from time to time, I want you to
    57        give some thought in advance as to how you can most
    58        expeditiously get through it, for instance, by forbearing
    59        from reading large parts or just picking the bits and
    60        pieces you particularly want or saying to me: "I would like
 
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