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     1   MS. STEEL:   It shows what Ms. Dibb considers the problems to
     2        be.  This one she was just mentioning, I would have
     3        thought, particularly related to -----
     4
     5   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If that is right, you could just say to her,
     6        "Would you like to illustrate, by reference to your
     7        recommendations, what you consider the particular problems
     8        are at the moment?"
     9
    10   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  I think we do not need to go into full
    11        details on every single recommendation.
    12
    13   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If you put a question like that, I would see
    14        immediately what you were getting at; whereas if we go off
    15        into a document without any signpost of that kind, I wonder
    16        what you are aiming at.
    17
    18   MR. MORRIS (To the witness):  So these recommendations are, in
    19        some ways, criticisms of the present code, in effect?
    20        A.  Well, yes.  They acknowledge -----
    21
    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  They are what you think the Code should have,
    23        which it presently lacks?
    24        A.  Yes.
    25
    26   MR. MORRIS:  In general, these recommendations, would you say,
    27        are -- I do not want to ask a leading question -- practical
    28        and implementable as of tomorrow, if they were adopted?
    29        A.  There would have to be a period, I think, in which they
    30        were introduced but, as I said just now, they were drawn up
    31        to be realistic.
    32
    33   Q.   So if we just skate through them, I think some of them you
    34        have obviously dealt with when you looked at the ITC Code
    35        as it stands already, so it may be worth just skating over
    36        those ones.  But very quickly, then, on page 5, number 3?
    37        A.  Yes.  This deals with placing greater emphasis on the
    38        spirit rather than the letter -- the concerns I raised
    39        earlier.
    40
    Q.   And saying "it will be" (underlined) as opposed to, in the
    42        first paragraph, it says "are intended to be", at present?
    43        A.  Yes.
    44
    45   Q.   So that would make the ITC more fierce in implementing its
    46        guidelines; is that correct?
    47        A.  More adequate, I would say, in its implementation.
    48
    49   Q.   Adequate.  Rule 19?
    50        A.  Yes.  These are in the general part of the Code rather 
    51        than in the Children's part. 
    52 
    53   Q.   Maybe we could skate over that and go on to the Children's
    54        section?
    55        A.  Yes.
    56
    57   MR. MORRIS:   On page 5, rule 19, would you just explain why you
    58        are linking it to the reports of expert advisory
    59        committees?
    60