MR HATTINGH
Not necessarily everything beforehand, but I think in the perfect world most of it should have been done beforehand, so that when this Committee sits down with this applicant, the Committee has the benefit of the full Police docket with regard to all Police investigations that were conducted at the time, if a person was convicted in a court, with all the relevant court documentation, judgements and transcripts of evidence there or at least the applicant's plea proceedings in the criminal court, any further investigation pertaining to what is disclosed in his application for amnesty.
	In a perfect world that should have been placed before the Committee before a hearing, but if that was not done, then at least if something of this kind is available and if a request does go out where it is requested that the Committee do something to acquire those documents, those Police dockets, the background, the full picture, then the perception from the lay person if the Committee is not going to do that, if the Committee is going to take the attitude that well, we hear the applicant and we accept his word for everything that he is going to tell us, that is now creating the impression of bias, because it would appear from their side, that the Committee is not doing its utmost to take into consideration the full picture of possible documentation that could be made available of could be obtained to compare or to test the applicant's version at this present hearing.