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1 bundles are there and in your bundles so that we all have
the same set. That is the most sensible approach
2 otherwise -----
3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am not aware it has not been systematic.
As far as I know, until someone points out something
4 different, the volumes I have here are the same as the
volumes which the witness has there, which are the same as
5 the volumes you have at your disposal in court. Is there
any reason to doubt that?
6
MR. RAMPTON: No reason to doubt that.
7
MR. JUSTICE BELL: Where a wheel comes out off, if it comes off
8 at all, is a difference between what you have in court
there and what you have at home.
9
MR. MORRIS: There were documents, which you remember at the
10 beginning of the trial, that were not in your set that had
been served.
11
MR. RAMPTON: The only exception is this, that the actual
12 mechanical or physical process in inserting documents in
defendants' trial bundles Mrs. Brinley-Codd has perhaps,
13 your Lordship may think understandably, decided should be
left to them. She should not do that for two reasons.
14 One is it is not particularly gracious of the defendants
to expect her to do so. Secondly, and more importantly,
15 one's files contain markings which one would not want the
other side to see.
16
MS. STEEL: That is fine, but sometimes we are given documents
17 without being told where they are to be slotted.
18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What Mrs. Brinley-Codd very helpfully did
when I was handed up papers they had post-its on them with
19 the volume, the tab and the page. I am sure she will be
prepared to put a post-it on whatever is handed to you,
20 but I think you should put it in your own volumes. I am
sure she would be willing to do that. Secondly, she would
21 not want to open a bundle and see you had written
something in the margin on a document.
22
MR. MORRIS: Can you make sure we have three copies of any
23 documents that are served?
24 MR. RAMPTON: No. I will not undertake to do that. They may
make their own copies of documents which are served. I
25 deliberately, when I handed those documents in to your
Lordship at the beginning of this week, read out the
26 references and the page numbers of the files where they
should be placed. That is as far as our side, unless your
27 Lordship tells us otherwise, we are prepared to go.
28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You are two separate parties. In my view,
you should each get one copy of a document. I do not
29 think it is unreasonable if you make an extra -- you can
decide if you like that the copy which is yours, Ms.
30 Steel, goes into your court bundles and the copy which is
Mr. Morris' is photocopied once, so you can each have a
