ADV PRIOR
Thank you Mr Chairman, Mr Chairman, I have prepared very brief Heads and I simply want to make one or two remarks if I may.
	Mr Visser has correctly stated the legal position regarding the privilege relating to informers, and it is trait that those considerations apply.  However, I would ask the Committee to distinguish those decisions on the basis that the circumstances before this Committee, are somewhat different from the circumstances in each of those cases, decided upon by the various Court decisions.
	Those principles and the judgments which underpin those principles, operated or evolved in a normal situation, if I may refer to it as a normal situation, where the police were acting legitimately and lawfully in the combatting of crime.
	Hence the submission that this Committee can well distinguish those views.  I endorse the view and it is also the submission that the two persons referred to as informers, are not in fact informers in the true sense of the word and on that, if that is the case, then a lot of the argument then falls away regarding their protection or the refusal to communicate their identity.
	I also endorse the suggestion made by the Committee at this stage, that possibly a practical solution to the impasse would be the one suggested by the Chairman, yourself Mr Chairman.