Day 172 - 12 Oct 95 - Page 14
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2 MR. MORRIS: Can we have just ten minutes?
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4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am going to take quarter of an hour,
5 because there is something which I have to do. So I will
6 come back at quarter to 12, or very soon after.
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8 (Short Adjournment)
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10 MR. MORRIS: Can I just deal with some matters before we read
11 out the Civil Evidence Act?
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13 MR. RAMPTON: It will be a very long time before we will be able
14 to do any reading of Civil Evidence Act statements, because
15 I first of all have to tell your Lordship what my
16 objections are, and I am afraid they are quite numerous.
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18 MR. MORRIS: Can I deal with some other matters first?
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20 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You raise your other matters, and then I will
21 hear anything Mr. Rampton wants to say.
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23 MR. MORRIS: Yes. I am just making a note. I am getting a bit
24 confused here. There are some documents to serve. There
25 is a computer printout -- not a printout, a disk -- which
26 was in the documents served. There was a letter served in
27 the last set of documents served, which you remember got
28 put into volume VII and under the environment number 1. It
29 was the very first document. It referred to a computer
30 disk. I will keep it in the envelope.
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32 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not necessarily need one at the moment.
33 Just tell me where -----
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35 MR. MORRIS: It is the disk that is the actual document, you
36 see.
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Take me to a document.
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40 MR. MORRIS: It is environment number 1; it is the very first
41 document in that file. It should have "world conservation
42 monitoring centre". It referred to a disk, which is --
43 I have not got the document in front of me, but it is meant
44 to be the state of the art progress of deforestation in
45 Costa Rica. I think the disk runs -- if someone types
46 "run" the disk runs automatically until it is complete.
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What does it have on it?
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50 MR. MORRIS: It has a map of Costa Rica and some charts around
51 the outside of the map; and the forest cover of Costa Rica
52 is identified. The map changes as the years change. So
53 when it goes from 1950 to 1951, some of the forest cover
54 disappears, and that continues; and it is also projected
55 after 1990, but we are not so concerned with that.
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57 MR. JUSTICE BELL: How many different displays would you get on
58 the VDU?
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60 MR. MORRIS: I think, as it runs, you get about -- well, it goes
