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The facts of the case are your responsibility, and I cannot overemphasise that. You will no doubt wish to take into account both the excellent arguments that you heard from Counsel on Friday and yesterday, but you are not obliged to accept them. You may find yourself persuaded by points made by each Counsel and you will take those into account. Equally if in the course of my review of the evidence I appear to express any view on the facts or to emphasise a particular aspect of the evidence, do not adopt those views unless you agree with them. If I do not mention an aspect of the evidence which you think is important or helpful, well, you give that such weight as you think fit. Again if I lay weight or dwell over lengthily on something you think is trivial or unimportant, try and bear with me, because some of your number may find that bit helpful, but it is your judgment in the end that counts. As I said, I shall try to remind you of the salient features of the evidence as they appear to me, but obviously I will not repeat everything, because that would be tedious and useless. I shall try to summarise and put evidence in a chronological order, grouping each witness's evidence on a particular aspect of the case as best I can, regardless of the different stages of the trial at which you heard the evidence. Of course we hear evidence about particular events of the 17th of July 1976 back in November and we will hear more this year, so I will try and put those sort of aspects together for you.

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