Day 184 - 06 Nov 95 - Page 03

     
     1        or it might have been Friday.  What, in effect, has been
     2        done is that 22 of the 39 intervenors in the Canadian
     3        Labour Court proceedings have verified the contents of the
     4        letters which they wrote to the Labour Court.  In a number
     5        of the cases we have been sent copies which do not have
     6        names in places where names are needed.
     7
     8        I am not, myself, intending to make any use of them while
     9        my two Canadian witnesses are here, save to get them to
    10        identify their own letters.  I would not have done, anyway,
    11        since they cannot attest to the truth of what other people
    12        have written.  As I said to your Lordship last week, their
    13        principal purpose is in cross-examination of Sarah Ingliss,
    14        not the evidence-in-chief of these two witnesses.
    15
    16        What I am going to do if I can, and as soon as possible, is
    17        get the originals of the letters, so that all the names
    18        which were blanked out (by the Labour Court, I am
    19        instructed) are there for all to see.
    20
    MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, very well.
    22
    23   MR. RAMPTON:  I will pass up to your Lordship a copy of what we
    24        sent to the Defendants on Saturday morning.
    25
    26   MS. STEEL:   Afternoon; it was late afternoon.
    27
    28   MR. RAMPTON:  I suggest for the moment that your Lordship puts
    29        that at the end of volume yellow XIII.  I think the tab
    30        number will be 44.
    31
    32        The other thing we sent to the Defendants on Saturday is
    33        something which we got on Saturday ourselves, which is a
    34        note that Sabina Iurillo made of the crew meeting on
    35        Tuesday, 5th October 1993.  I will, if I may, take her this
    36        much beyond her written statement:  I will get her to
    37        identify and to explain what it represents.  My Lord, the
    38        paragraph numbers in her statement to which it relates are
    39        26 to 28.  I would ask your Lordship to put that behind her
    40        statement or somewhere with her statement, which is,
         I hope, at volume XB, tab 39E.  I will pass that up to
    42        Mr. Riley.  (Handed)
    43
    44        The only other respect in which I would go a little
    45        beyond -- apart from asking from introductory questions --
    46        a little beyond the written statement, is to ask
    47        Miss Iurilla to identify the petition which is mentioned in
    48        paragraphs 18 to 24 of her statement.  That is already in
    49        the bundle.
    50 
    51   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes. 
    52 
    53   MS. STEEL:  There were some parts in the statement that I wanted
    54        to object to as hearsay, although it might be that
    55        Mr. Morris wants to ask some questions on related or
    56        surrounding matters.  But I thought I should raise it now.
    57
    58   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you want to tell me -- I have noticed some
    59        as I went through, but do you want to identify those?
    60