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     1        are----
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     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, I appreciate that.
     4
     5   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, the Defendants will need to insert into
     6        their bundles some pages from -- one of the references is a
     7        book.  What I have done is to copy the parts of the
     8        books -- it is not very many pages -- to which I may make
     9        reference.
    10
    11   MS. STEEL:  Can I just say that is exactly the sort of thing
    12        that Mr. Rampton is always objecting to, just copying parts
    13        of books.
    14
    15   MR. RAMPTON:  The whole book is here if anyone wants to see it.
    16
    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can the book be handed over?
    18
    19   MR. RAMPTON:  The problem about that is that it belongs to the
    20        British Library.  I am just concerned that it might come to
         harm, get damaged or lost, or something.  It is not ours.
    22        It is not a book you can buy; you have to get it from a
    23        library.
    24
    25   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Except that if the Defendants do not have it,
    26        they are perfectly entitled to say, "We need time to look
    27        through the rest of that", as, indeed, you said from time
    28        to time.
    29
    30   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes.  I agree with that.  It is only an anxiety.
    31        I do not suppose I can prevent your Lordship, or the
    32        British Library can, from saying the Defendants ought to
    33        have it.
    34
    35   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I cannot start saying what should happen to
    36        someone else's property.  I have no authority whatsoever to
    37        do that.
    38
    39   MR. RAMPTON:  It is not a very big book.
    40
    MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You will take good care of it if you are lent
    42        it, will you not?  There is no reason to suppose you will
    43        not.
    44
    45   MR. RAMPTON:  This must not be marked, obviously.  I have not
    46        marked it.  Nothing must be done to it at all.  It comes
    47        from a document supply centre in Yorkshire.
    48
    49   MR. MORRIS:  I mean, with respect to the court, I cannot see us
    50        being able to assimilate all the new information the day 
    51        before our expert witness is---- 
    52 
    53   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That may be the conclusion I draw, as well.
    54        What I am saying is that if Miss Dibb gets a bundle some
    55        time today, and if she comes tomorrow anyway so that, quite
    56        apart from anything else, she is here to talk to you as
    57        soon as Mr. Miles's evidence is finished, we will take
    58        stock then.  It may very well be that the conclusion will
    59        be that we will start on Friday morning.  But I do not want
    60        to give up what may be half a day or the best part of half