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Post by C.Edwards 09.01.13 14:11

Just to help me try and understand this...

If, for argument's sake Tony, you thought your next door neighbours were carrying on an illegal activity - say growing marijuana or something and you started putting up signs in your front garden saying, "my next door neighbours are criminals!", "police! arrest these people", "nasty criminals live here (with arrow pointing to neighbour's house, obviously!)" then your neighbours objected and took you to court unless you pulled down those signs and agreed to stop saying those things and you agreed as you didn't fancy a court case...

But then you subsequently discovered new evidence - say you saw them sneaking out with plants in the dead of night or saw their plants through the window and put the signs back up in your garden and they actually took you to court again as you'd broken your agreement...

Would your defence in that second case be, "I am entitled to put the signs back up again as I KNOW they are what I say they are, I have seen the evidence with my own eyes" or would it be something else? Assuming, of course, that you made an application after being summonsed to vary your undertaking to keep quiet and not erect such signs.

You see, I fail to see how you can possibly win the initial case against you right now as it appears to be a simple matter of you, no matter how much you regret giving those undertakings at the time, simply choosing to ignore those undertakings - it does appear to be very clear cut. Whereas I can see the logic behind Justice Tugendhat's stance on "hey, maybe there wasn't a libel after all" I cannot see in a month of Sundays that any judge is going to say it's ok for anyone to ignore an undertaking just because *they* felt it was given under duress or had changed their mind - that's a unilateral act and cannot be supported in law.

Your only hope would appear to be that the court decides that they cannot possibly punish you for an undertaking if it's possible to prove that your undertaking shouldn't have been asked for in the first place - i.e. you can successfully prove that everything you've said is true and/or fair comment. Knowing what a proverbial ass the law is from bitter experience, I really cannot see how a court can take that line and prevent utter carnage in the legal system as people would simply ignore undertakings all over the place and try and force others into court for a chance to prove they had the right to fair comment or whatever they gave the undertaking for.

At the moment it appears as if it'll be a matter of, "Mr. Bennett, did you agree not to say/do x?", "yes", "did you subsequently go on to do/say x?", "yes, but only because I was tricked into...", "Mr. Bennett, it's a case of 'yes' or 'no'" and I can't see that they'll have any option other than to find in the McCann's favour. Your hope that they will allow you to mitigate your actions by way of having the chance to drag the McCanns into a full libel action seems very dependent on whether the court allows for undertakings to be retrospectively varied by one side only in that undertaking and I just cannot see an English court doing that.

I sincerely hope I'm wrong - I would love to see the McCanns have to defend some (maybe even most) of their words and actions in a libel trial as I think there will be a whole lot of loose ends pulled at that will make things very hard for them indeed. I wish you luck and hope that you get a sympathetic hearing as, you're right, there's a huge inequality or arms here. I'm just not sure that it's safe for the law of the land to condone someone (apparently) breaking an undertaking as appears on face value to be the case.
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Post by PeterMac 09.01.13 15:14

Tony Bennett wrote:
bristow wrote:Whilst I back Tony whole heartedly I do think that it is not good to air on a public forum the ins and outs of what he will do and say, CR et al will be reading feverishly and amending and altering anything that could remotely put them in the wrong, they are being given a preview of what Tony will be saying on the day, thus watering down any impact Tony could have on the day.
FOR INFORMATION

What I've been saying on the forum about the case recently is all, one way or another, within my written submissions to the court which Carter-Ruck (and the court) have had for months e.g. they know all about the Spiller v Joseph case

Quite so. Whatever else Carter-Ruck may be, they are not stupid.
Adam Tudor took a First at Oxford in law (Jurispridence) and others in the firm are similarly qualified. Matorell was at Cambridge
They know precisely what will be said, and will even now be trying to sort out the wording of questions so that they get exactly the right answer.

That is how it works.
It is an intricate intellectual ballet, far removed from the dirt of facts and evidence, concerned solely with minute legal niceties of whether five or more angels are likely to overcrowd the head of a pin, and if peradventure one should fall off, whether it could be held that the others were guilty of contributory negligence.
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Post by david_uk 09.01.13 15:59

bristow wrote:Whilst I back Tony whole heartedly I do think that it is not good to air on a public forum the ins and outs of what he will do and say, CR et al will be reading feverishly and amending and altering anything that could remotely put them in the wrong, they are being given a preview of what Tony will be saying on the day, thus watering down any impact Tony could have on the day.


I have said the same on numerous occasions. As much as I like to know whats going on, I think TB should keep his cards close to his chest and not post anything on here publicly. high5

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Post by PeterMac 09.01.13 16:02

david_uk wrote:
bristow wrote:Whilst I back Tony whole heartedly I do think that it is not good to air on a public forum the ins and outs of what he will do and say, CR et al will be reading feverishly and amending and altering anything that could remotely put them in the wrong, they are being given a preview of what Tony will be saying on the day, thus watering down any impact Tony could have on the day.
I have said the same on numerous occasions. As much as I like to know whats going on, I think TB should keep his cards close to his chest and not post anything on here publicly.
Perhaps he does have some spare Aces !
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Post by Guest 09.01.13 16:41

tiny wrote:Why all this stalling, are the mccanns waiting for Mr Amarals case to be heard first or will they try to stall that as well,or are they waiting to see what the review kicks up, I have said it before that the mccanns do not want this to go to court.

I agree with you 100%. The Mccann's will do anything they can to avoid an appearance before a law court, now I wonder why that might be?
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Post by david_uk 09.01.13 17:02

Gollum wrote:
tiny wrote:Why all this stalling, are the mccanns waiting for Mr Amarals case to be heard first or will they try to stall that as well,or are they waiting to see what the review kicks up, I have said it before that the mccanns do not want this to go to court.

I agree with you 100%. The Mccann's will do anything they can to avoid an appearance before a law court, now I wonder why that might be?

Dont know!! but after seeing Gerry so furious after the Amaral court cases it could be interesting!. What did he say again! something like This is about this girl? I need to see that clip again! I couldn't believe the guy was talking about his own daughter!!

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Post by Monty Heck 09.01.13 19:26

I'm having difficulty understanding the legalities here so wonder if I have this right?


  • Someone takes a libel action against another in a civil court but before any evidence of the alleged libel is put before the court, the person accused agrees to sign an undertaking that he will not do certain things. This agreement is effective for the rest of the accused's natural life.
  • The pursuers then request a stay of proceedings rather than dropping the case altogether and this is granted by the court
  • the accused is later accused of breaching the undertaking/s and is taken to court by the pursuer with a view to his being punished for breach of the undertaking/s which may mean a prison term
  • the accused wishes to defend this on the basis that the undertaking/s were unfair or unfairly applied and a preliminary hearing is heard by a judge
  • the judge points out that there may be no basis for the libel claim as it has never been before a court, therefore there may be no grounds for the alleged breach of undertaking but allows the case to proceed

I know nothing of English law but can someone actually be sentenced to imprisonment for breaching an undertaking given in a case where the facts as claimed by the pursuer have not been heard in court, far less proven? Further, the pursuers can resist removal of the stay on the original libel case brought by them and which they had put in place, and that this will therefore stand ad infinitum unless they decide to proceed further?
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Post by C.Edwards 09.01.13 19:51

Interesting post Monty. This is where, I feel, the wriggle room is for lawyers to get rich. What's "law" and what's "common sense" can be miles apart sometimes. From what I understand basically Tony consented to the undertaking on the basis that this stopped the full libel trial. If he'd believed he had a defence of fair comment at the time then he should have (theoretically, of course, we all understand the issues with costs) carried on into the libel trial - it's a little like bluffing at poker, you only get to see the cards if you call the bluff and run the risk of losing the hand. If you fold beforehand then you don't get to see the cards, sadly, and you just never know.

The only hope I think he has on the pure contempt side is if he can prove duress, which will invalidate the undertaking. Duress is notoriously hard to prove so I'm not convinced it will work.

Anyhow, all conjecture. I know no better than Justice Tugendhat who is of the opinion this is best handled by a proper libel trial so maybe that's the only way for it to go, but it'll take flipping ages to get there even if Tony Manages to steer things that way!

Edited to add: Even if Tony is found to be in contempt, apparently the sentence won't be decided upon until after the other proceedings (assuming there are some)
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Post by monkey mind 09.01.13 19:58

david_uk wrote:
Gollum wrote:
tiny wrote:Why all this stalling, are the mccanns waiting for Mr Amarals case to be heard first or will they try to stall that as well,or are they waiting to see what the review kicks up, I have said it before that the mccanns do not want this to go to court.

I agree with you 100%. The Mccann's will do anything they can to avoid an appearance before a law court, now I wonder why that might be?

Dont know!! but after seeing Gerry so furious after the Amaral court cases it could be interesting!. What did he say again! something like This is about this girl? I need to see that clip again! I couldn't believe the guy was talking about his own daughter!!
“This girl”. Which girl david?

Is it the almost 4 year old that he and his wife stuck in the crèche every day in a foreign country then left unattended in an unfamiliar and unlocked apartment on the ground floor right next to a public car parking area five nights on the trot while he and his wife were drinking with their friends some distance away? The one who didn’t have her own toothbrush on her ‘holiday’.

If so.

I can believe that.
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Post by Smokeandmirrors 09.01.13 20:33

[quote="PeterMac"]
Tony Bennett wrote:
bristow wrote:Whilst I back Tony whole heartedly I do think that it is not good to air on a public forum the ins and outs of what he will do and say, CR et al will be reading feverishly and amending and altering anything that could remotely put them in the wrong, they are being given a preview of what Tony will be saying on the day, thus watering down any impact Tony could have on the day.
FOR INFORMATION

What I've been saying on the forum about the case recently is all, one way or another, within my written submissions to the court which Carter-Ruck (and the court) have had for months e.g. they know all about the Spiller v Joseph case

Quite so. Whatever else Carter-Ruck may be, they are not stupid.
Adam Tudor took a First at Oxford in law (Jurispridence) and others in the firm are similarly qualified. Matorell was at Cambridge
They know precisely what will be said, and will even now be trying to sort out the wording of questions so that they get exactly the right answer.

That is how it works.
It is an intricate intellectual ballet, far removed from the dirt of facts and evidence, concerned solely with minute legal niceties of whether five or more angels are likely to overcrowd the head of a pin, and if peradventure one should fall off, whether it could be held that the others were guilty of contributory negligence.
A decent lawyer ( or detective) never asks a question unless he or she already knows the answer.[/quote}

And the greater the lawyers ability to execute semantic pirouettes, the higher the hourly rate.

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Post by Tony Bennett 09.01.13 21:07

Monty Heck wrote:I'm having difficulty understanding the legalities here so wonder if I have this right?

Stepping in for a moment just to answer you, 'Monty Heck', though it seems to me that you have a very good grasp of matters already. So here goes with a point-by-point reply


  • Someone takes a libel action against another in a civil court, but before any evidence of the alleged libel is put before the court, the person accused agrees to sign an undertaking that he will not do certain things. This agreement is effective for the rest of the accused's natural life.

More or less. The undertaking was given without time limit, which I understand is relativley unusual. It means the undertakings continue in force until the defendant [pursuer] successfully challenges the undertakings or the claimant deems that they are no longer necessary


  • The pursuers then request a stay of proceedings rather than dropping the case altogether and this is granted by the court

Absolutely correct


  • the accused is later accused of breaching the undertaking/s and is taken to court by the pursuer with a view to his being punished for breach of the undertaking/s which may mean a prison term

That's also 100% correct


  • the accused wishes to defend this on the basis that the undertaking/s were unfair or unfairly applied and a preliminary hearing is heard by a judge

That's more or less it, I have suggested to the court that the undertakings were 'unreasonable in the circumstances', or words to that effect


  • the judge points out that there may be no basis for the libel claim as it has never been before a court, therefore there may be no grounds for the alleged breach of undertaking but allows the case to proceed

I think that's substantially what the case on 5 and 6 February will be about

I know nothing of English law

I can tell that by the use of the Scottish legal term 'pursuer'

but can someone actually be sentenced to imprisonment for breaching an undertaking given in a case where the facts as claimed by the pursuer have not been heard in court, far less proven? Further, the pursuers can resist removal of the stay on the original libel case brought by them and which they had put in place, and that this will therefore stand ad infinitum unless they decide to proceed further?

The way you put the question, the whole situation seems grossly unfair, and utterly bizarre, but I guess I'll have to wait and see how the judge analyses all this in just under 4 weeks' time

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Post by Monty Heck 09.01.13 21:30

Was about to log out when saw your post Tony, thank you for that. The description bizarre doesn't seem adequate but there probably isn't a better way of describing this judicially backed folly. You certainly don't miss much as the "pursuer" reference would have passed unnoticed by most! Good luck and good night.
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Post by roy rovers 09.01.13 23:42

Monty Heck wrote: 'but can someone actually be sentenced to imprisonment for breaching an undertaking given in a case where the facts as claimed by the pursuer have not been heard in court, far less proven?'

Perhaps if the undertakings were registered into court before the judge as settlement of the claim that was to have been tried. (I'm no expert but I think conceptually that's how it goes).
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Post by Observer 10.01.13 0:50

Gollum wrote:
tiny wrote:Why all this stalling, are the mccanns waiting for Mr Amarals case to be heard first or will they try to stall that as well,or are they waiting to see what the review kicks up, I have said it before that the mccanns do not want this to go to court.

I agree with you 100%. The Mccann's will do anything they can to avoid an appearance before a law court, now I wonder why that might be?
Like I said before, there will be a "Very credible sighting" just prior to this hearing. The Judge will grant a postponement whilst the MC's head out by private jet to Ulan Bator, however they won't be able to return for the next hearing on time, claiming they have been held up by the "extremely unreliable" Mongolian HUSKIES public transport.
However things take a turn for the worst for the MC's in Mongolia, the UK media have reported that they have been abducted kidnapped, numerous reports have been published in the UK media regarding the identity of the abductor/s, kidnapper/s, still, almost six years on there has been no ransom request despite their healthy bank account fund, also millions of UK tax payers money have been spent on a whitewash review, as yet 195 no new clues have been found into their whereabouts.
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Post by Inspectorfrost 10.01.13 1:06

Observer wrote:
Gollum wrote:
tiny wrote:Why all this stalling, are the mccanns waiting for Mr Amarals case to be heard first or will they try to stall that as well,or are they waiting to see what the review kicks up, I have said it before that the mccanns do not want this to go to court.

I agree with you 100%. The Mccann's will do anything they can to avoid an appearance before a law court, now I wonder why that might be?
Like I said before, there will be a "Very credible sighting" just prior to this hearing. The Judge will grant a postponement whilst the MC's head out by private jet to Ulan Bator, however they won't be able to return for the next hearing on time, claiming they have been held up by the "extremely unreliable" Mongolian HUSKIES public transport.
However things take a turn for the worst for the MC's in Mongolia, the UK media have reported that they have been abducted kidnapped, numerous reports have been published in the UK media regarding the identity of the abductor/s, kidnapper/s, still, almost six years on there has been no ransom request despite their healthy bank account fund, also millions of UK tax payers money have been spent on a whitewash review, as yet 195 no new clues have been found into their whereabouts.

LMFAO!
lol!

Gerry mccann doesnt like being anywhere near any court that might even suggest turn of events are not as they have been promoted, oh well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k5Q7QZNfFA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Post by aiyoyo 10.01.13 1:49


Actually pseudo sightings before trial will backfire on them as it will be counter to their 'hinder the search" claims.

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Post by aiyoyo 10.01.13 1:54

Inspectorfrost wrote:
Observer wrote:
Gollum wrote:
tiny wrote:Why all this stalling, are the mccanns waiting for Mr Amarals case to be heard first or will they try to stall that as well,or are they waiting to see what the review kicks up, I have said it before that the mccanns do not want this to go to court.

I agree with you 100%. The Mccann's will do anything they can to avoid an appearance before a law court, now I wonder why that might be?
Like I said before, there will be a "Very credible sighting" just prior to this hearing. The Judge will grant a postponement whilst the MC's head out by private jet to Ulan Bator, however they won't be able to return for the next hearing on time, claiming they have been held up by the "extremely unreliable" Mongolian HUSKIES public transport.
However things take a turn for the worst for the MC's in Mongolia, the UK media have reported that they have been abducted kidnapped, numerous reports have been published in the UK media regarding the identity of the abductor/s, kidnapper/s, still, almost six years on there has been no ransom request despite their healthy bank account fund, also millions of UK tax payers money have been spent on a whitewash review, as yet 195 no new clues have been found into their whereabouts.

LMFAO!
lol!

Gerry mccann doesnt like being anywhere near any court that might even suggest turn of events are not as they have been promoted, oh well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k5Q7QZNfFA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

If they can get away with it they probably wont even show up.
Reporting of court proceedings isnt libelous, so I wonder whether the Press will splash on mc-can-litigate-news when the time comes.
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Post by Tombraider 10.01.13 8:47

Tony Bennett wrote:
Monty Heck wrote:I'm having difficulty understanding the legalities here so wonder if I have this right?

Stepping in for a moment just to answer you, 'Monty Heck', though it seems to me that you have a very good grasp of matters already. So here goes with a point-by-point reply


  • Someone takes a libel action against another in a civil court, but before any evidence of the alleged libel is put before the court, the person accused agrees to sign an undertaking that he will not do certain things. This agreement is effective for the rest of the accused's natural life.

More or less. The undertaking was given without time limit, which I understand is relativley unusual. It means the undertakings continue in force until the defendant [pursuer] successfully challenges the undertakings or the claimant deems that they are no longer necessary


  • The pursuers then request a stay of proceedings rather than dropping the case altogether and this is granted by the court

Absolutely correct


  • the accused is later accused of breaching the undertaking/s and is taken to court by the pursuer with a view to his being punished for breach of the undertaking/s which may mean a prison term

That's also 100% correct


  • the accused wishes to defend this on the basis that the undertaking/s were unfair or unfairly applied and a preliminary hearing is heard by a judge

That's more or less it, I have suggested to the court that the undertakings were 'unreasonable in the circumstances', or words to that effect


  • the judge points out that there may be no basis for the libel claim as it has never been before a court, therefore there may be no grounds for the alleged breach of undertaking but allows the case to proceed


I think that's substantially what the case on 5 and 6 February will be about

I know nothing of English law

I can tell that by the use of the Scottish legal term 'pursuer'

but can someone actually be sentenced to imprisonment for breaching an undertaking given in a case where the facts as claimed by the pursuer have not been heard in court, far less proven? Further, the pursuers can resist removal of the stay on the original libel case brought by them and which they had put in place, and that this will therefore stand ad infinitum unless they decide to proceed further?

The way you put the question, the whole situation seems grossly unfair, and utterly bizarre, but I guess I'll have to wait and see how the judge analyses all this in just under 4 weeks' time





It would appear that there is an element of deception involved with this case, by that I mean in obtaining the item which resulted in the breach of the undertaking?
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Post by Ange 10.01.13 17:59


Could someone tell me if there's a time out on this forum please? I replied on this thread just there, went to post and and had to log in again. Yet I'd unknowingly stayed logged on for over 24 hours the other day. Not sure if the problem's mine as my laptop froze when I initially signed in earlier, thanks for any information.
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Post by Observer 10.01.13 18:08

Ange wrote:
Could someone tell me if there's a time out on this forum please? I replied on this thread just there, went to post and and had to log in again. Yet I'd unknowingly stayed logged on for over 24 hours the other day. Not sure if the problem's mine as my laptop froze when I initially signed in earlier, thanks for any information.
I don't think there is a time out, however if you were posting a reply, you must have been signed in, as it is not possible to post unless you are signed in. Hope that makes sense.
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Post by bristow 10.01.13 18:24

Ange wrote:
Could someone tell me if there's a time out on this forum please? I replied on this thread just there, went to post and and had to log in again. Yet I'd unknowingly stayed logged on for over 24 hours the other day. Not sure if the problem's mine as my laptop froze when I initially signed in earlier, thanks for any information.

Sounds like you might need to clear your cache and some cookies.
I had this problem on Ancestry a couple of days ago and they recommended I did that, and it worked.
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Post by Ange 10.01.13 18:50

Observer wrote:
Ange wrote:
Could someone tell me if there's a time out on this forum please? I replied on this thread just there, went to post and and had to log in again. Yet I'd unknowingly stayed logged on for over 24 hours the other day. Not sure if the problem's mine as my laptop froze when I initially signed in earlier, thanks for any information.
I don't think there is a time out, however if you were posting a reply, you must have been signed in, as it is not possible to post unless you are signed in. Hope that makes sense.


Sorry, I don't think I was clear enough, Observer. I'd written my reply, previewed it and hit send. It didn't happen, and the log in box appeared. I had only been logged on here for about half an hour and spent a bit of time reading before I replied to a post. You probably know that in some forums you have to check you're still logged on if you've spent some time reading before you post, and I was thinking it may be the same here, after X amount of time if you follow me. Though I wondered if maybe my laptop was playing up, as when I initially logged in here earlier in the day, it froze and I had to re-boot it. Thank you for replying.
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Post by Ange 10.01.13 18:52

bristow wrote:
Ange wrote:
Could someone tell me if there's a time out on this forum please? I replied on this thread just there, went to post and and had to log in again. Yet I'd unknowingly stayed logged on for over 24 hours the other day. Not sure if the problem's mine as my laptop froze when I initially signed in earlier, thanks for any information.

Sounds like you might need to clear your cache and some cookies.
I had this problem on Ancestry a couple of days ago and they recommended I did that, and it worked.

Thanks Bristow, I didn't even think of that today, I'll do that now. smilie
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Post by Liz Eagles 10.01.13 18:56

Hi Bristow and Ange,

There is a technical help section on the forum to post on for technical help just so we can keep the original posts going.
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Post by sonic72 10.01.13 21:19

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Mr. Bennett ,
What do you mean "I don't think there as never been a case like this" ? Your part in this case is quite trivial in the scheme of things. It probably won't even make the red tops.
Do you get it yet Mr. Bennett ?
No one on here cares about you and what you are going through at all. Your posts are mostly ignored.
You have persecuted the McCann's for years and now you will reap what you have sowed.
Amen to that.x.

Pam Gurney (and many other internet alias') aka Kate McCann, your tactics are futile, don't make your situation any worse than it already is! You're just digging a bigger hole each time you comment, and believe me, your hole is too big now.

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