TEXT:
To: Doctor A. J. P. Kenny, Balliol College, Oxford
Professor Sir Peter Hirsch, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford.
Doctor G. Marshall, Queen's College, Oxford
Mr. I. C. Butler, Christ Church College, Oxford
P. M. Oppenheimer, Christ Church College, Oxford
Doctor G. A. Holmes, St. Catherine's College, Oxford
Professor R. J. P. Williams, Wadham College, Oxford
Professor I. Brownlie, All Souls College, Oxford
Professor L. Weiskrantz, Magdalen College, Oxford
Professor Sir David Weatherall, Magdalen College, Oxford
Professor Sir Richard Southwood, Merton College, Oxford
Sir Keith Thomas, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Professor B. J. Birch, Brasenose College, Oxford
Professor F. G. B. Millar, Brasenose College, Oxford
Professor B. L. Trowell, Wadham College, Oxford
Professor J. M. Brady, Keble College, Oxford
Mr. P. J. Waller, Merton College, Oxford
Dr. C. J. Crouch, Trinity College, Oxford
Miss Joanna Innes, Somerville College, Oxford.
From: Andrew Malcolm, 7, Southover Street, Brighton BN2 2UA. telephone 0273 688930
To (example): Dr A J P Kenny, Balliol College, Oxford
Dear Dr Kenny,
Malcolm vs. Oxford University Press
Further to my letter to you of 31st March 1998 concerning the above action, which came to trial a week ago last Monday, I assume that you will be interested to read Deputy Judge Gavin Lightman's judgment, delivered Friday 16th March. I enclose herewith a copy of my transcript of it, together with various detailed remarks the judge made concerning the Press's discovery of documents and the non-appearance of Alan Ryan. I must make it clear that this is not the Court's official transcript, which I gather takes some weeks to produce, but I believe it is at least 95 percent accurate. The lengthy quotation of the correspondence is all the judge's own.
You will note that the question of whether, at the meeting on 23rd July 1985, the Delegates approved my book remains open and has become a central issue in the case. In an affidavit dated 19th July 1989 and in his witness statement which he confirmed on oath last Wednesday, your secretary Sir Roger Elliott stated that no list of General Books was submitted to that meeting and that no records have ever existed recording what books were approved (or not approved) at it.
I wonder if you may have any comment to make on this.
If you are interested to read it, I also have a complete transcript of my cross-examination last Wednesday of Sir Roger and your five other witnesses. This transcript makes very entertaining reading indeed and may at last have presented me with an obviously publishable (shootable?) script.
Yours sincerely, Andrew Malcolm
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