Read the full judgment text of on BabelCite. was delivered on 20 July 1989.
1. We have been dealing with these matters since 10 o'clock this morning. As we have already observed, the appeal proper will have to be adjourned until some date later in the year. It is obviously desirable that during the interim the parties should, if possible, know what is or is not to be accepted as evidence in the appeal. We have found in the short adjournment that we are agreed upon our decision, and so, even though it is now well past time, I shall attempt briefly to give the reasons whi