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1 "6. In view of the facts of this case as they are known
2 to me, I believe that reasonable members of a jury would
3 conclude that" -----
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You had better leave that (6) out.
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7 MR. MORRIS: Yes, I was going to suggest leaving that out.
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9 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Leave that because that is for me to decide.
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11 MR. MORRIS: Yes. If I just read without reference to the jury:
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13 "In view of the facts of this case as they are known to me
14 ... the Company showed little sensitivity to the problem
15 of Costa Rican deforestation, and that the 10 year policy
16 could constitute an incentive to small farmers to clear
17 forest land.
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19 "6. To establish the academic credibility of the article
20 from which the appended extracts were taken, I wish to
21 state that in addition to the journal New Political
22 Science, mentioned above, it was also published in the
23 prestigious International Journal of Political Economy (New
24 York) and in a book edited by David Goodman and Michael
25 Redclift, Environment and Development in Latin America,
26 (University of Manchester Press) 1990".
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28 You stand by that statement, do you?
29 A. Yes, although it needs one or two small clarifications
30 which one realises later on and which is confronted with a
31 statement written some time before. In the first page of
32 that supplementary statement ----
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34 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Could you keep your voice up, please?
35 A. No. 5, the notion of "established ranches", etcetera,
36 in some areas, Guanacaste or San Carlos, I think I should
37 be very clear that some parts of Guanacaste, because
38 Guanacaste is a very varied area in terms of the timing of
39 deforestation and the soil quality and its land use
40 capability, its ability to take pasture and other uses or
41 some parts of Guanacaste would be a lot clearer.
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43 MR. MORRIS: Right. We will come to that. Can I just refer to
44 the document that Mr. Rampton served at the end of last
45 week? I do not know if it has been given to the witness or
46 not.
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48 MR. RAMPTON: I have spare ones here, my Lord. I think it is
49 that. (Handed)
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51 MR. MORRIS: If we can just go to page 224 in that document, and
52 this is about the "established ranches" issue point that
53 you made. If there is anything in here you disagree with,
54 do say, but at the top it says: "There is a total of 12.6
55 million acres of land in the country", is that correct at
56 the top of the page?
57 A. I do not work in acres.
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59 Q. You do not work in acres normally. Let us assume these
60 figures are correct. Do you know about the status -----
