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1. On the 26th and 30th April 1986, I orally gave my reasons for decisions I had reached after carefully considering the substantial and extensive arguments of counsel and the encyclopaedic affidavit evidence placed before me. I would have preferred to take time to express my reasons in greater detail and in writing. In my view, however, the nature of the applications then before me called for my decisions to be given immediately after submissions had been concluded, if only to enable counsel