HASSAN MALL
I understand that.  This is a balancing act that is required to be fulfilled.  If  your clients 
were not faced with a trial, maybe this problem wouldn't arise, but you have got a situation where there are 
conflicting interests.
	The function and purpose of this Committee is to arrive at the truth insofar as it is possible to 
arrive at that
truth.  Now in order to arrive at that truth, the best evidence possible should be made available to this 
Committee.  I realise that it has been said that the best evidence is the evidence in open court tested under 
cross-examination, but if evidence is submitted by consent of the parties and your clients will know what is 
being said in that statement before it is submitted in its final form, they may be able to instruct you to 
formulate it in a way that would meet their requirements.