I can see the force of that suggestion, but I wouldn't at this stage like to commit my clients to a particular line. I am sorry if that's unhelpful.

Well, my Lord, really without instructions --

It may be, my Lord, but at the moment my client has chosen to seek separate representation from other groups, that is something to which obviously you may wish to return and we will make submissions at that stage.

It would seem to me that there would be some strange bedfellows if you were to order --

Well, my Lord, I have no instructions on the issue of joint representation.

We are not making an application today but I hope you don't mind hearing from me, my Lord, because I do anticipate that subject to instructions we will be making an application. What I would like to invite you to agree is that we may make that application in ...

The basis of that letter was that we are a major newspaper publisher, we therefore have a significant interest in the matters to which the Inquiry relates, in particular the future regulation of the industry. Our application for core participant status therefore, in common with the applications by the Express ...

My Lord, my name is Keith Mathieson, I am with the solicitors RPC, and I represent Associated Newspapers Limited which is the publisher, as I am sure you know, of the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday and the Mail Online website.

You should, my Lord, have received from us ...