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Anita James couldn't remember what happened to the publications attached to the statement of claim.

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Anita James was copied into a message suggesting that the Solicitor's Division held a copy of the committee papers of the ACVSB. She said she did not, at that stage, authorise a thorough search of the documents which might have been held by the Solicitor's Division.

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When Anita James was asked whether a more systematic assessment at an earlier stage might have helped more documents to be found, she said no and further stated "people who had been involved, their memories had faded."

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It was recognised that whilst the Solicitor's Division had dealt with three other major pieces of litigation in recent times, there had been no similar loss or destruction of documentation.

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In her oral evidence to the Inquiry, Caroline Flint observed that advice and briefings she received "were very much sort of a 100 percent suggesting that there was no testing that could have been done before 1991".

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Caroline Flint in her evidence to the Inquiry said, in relation to retention/destruction of papers in ministerial private offices following change of government, that the "private office themselves would destroy them or they would be handed on to somewhere else to destroy them."

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In the "Mail on Sunday", Susan Douglas, journalist, reported there was a patient at Cardiff who was suffering from AIDS as a result of being given treatment for haemophilia with blood from the United States.

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Lord Nigel Crisp in his oral evidence gave three reasons why he did not believe that he said to Lord Jenkin that there had been a deliberate cull of documents: (1) he did not have any knowledge other than the briefing he had received; (2) it was not true because the Department of Health subsequently reconstructed most of the papers and (3) his officials would have raised it with him if he had gone beyond the lines to take.

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Inquiry writes to parties in legal claim about Level 3 Hepatitis

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Tuesday 28 September - Counsel presentation: pharmaceutical companies (Hyland, Travenol and Immuno)

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Wednesday 29 September - Counsel presentation: pharmaceutical companies (Hyland, Travenol, Immuno and Bayer)

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Thursday 30 September - Counsel presentation: pharmaceutical companies (Bayer)

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Friday 1 October - Counsel presentation: pharmaceutical companies (Speywood)

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Tuesday 5 October - Counsel presentation: pharmaceutical companies (Alpha, Abbott, Griffols)

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Wednesday 6 October - Counsel presentation: smaller haemophilia centres (including centres in London and on the south coast)

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Further Information and Terminology

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Tuesday 21 September - Lord Norman Fowler

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Friday 24 September - Counsel presentation: pharmaceutical companies (Armour)

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Wednesday 22 September - Lord Norman Fowler (continued)

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Thursday 23 September - Counsel presentation: pharmaceutical companies (Armour)

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