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:'''{{cmr}}''': Oh? | :'''{{cmr}}''': Oh? | ||
:'''{{jbm}}''': Quite so. It was information about the plaintiff's ''business''. Not the plaintiff. | :'''{{jbm}}''': Quite so. It was information about the plaintiff's ''business''. Not the plaintiff. | ||
:'''{{cmr}}''': Your argument is that | :'''{{cmr}}''': Your argument is that sensitive information the plaintiff gave the defendant ''about its business'' should somehow be taken as ''not'' being “about the plaintiff”? | ||
:'''{{jbm}}''': Those are my instructions, m’lud. | :'''{{jbm}}''': Those are my instructions, m’lud. | ||
:'''{{cmr}}''': So, you would have me adopt a quite perverse interpretation in order to | :'''{{cmr}}''': So, you would have me adopt a quite perverse interpretation in order to subvert the plain commercial intent of the arrangement? | ||
:'''{{jbm}}''' ''(frantically scanning his brief)'': Yes, that’s it exactly, my liege. | :'''{{jbm}}''' ''(frantically scanning his brief)'': Yes, that’s it exactly, my liege. | ||
:'''{{cmr}}''': Would you say that is fair? | :'''{{cmr}}''': Would you say that is fair? | ||
:'''{{jbm}}''': I would have to take instructions, m’lud. In the mean time — | :'''{{jbm}}''' ''(Scanning the courtroom for that damnfool solicitor, Graves, who is nowhere to be seen)'': I would have to take instructions, m’lud. In the mean time — | ||
:'''{{cmr}}''': You wish the ground would open up and swallow you? | :'''{{cmr}}''': You wish the ground would open up and swallow you? | ||
:'''{{jbm}}''': I do, m’lud. | :'''{{jbm}}''': I do, m’lud. | ||
:'''{{cmr}}''': I shall make an order to that effect, Sir Jerrold. |