GEORGE BIZOS
If I were available I would require two weeks.  This is out of term.  We specifically sought a date out of term and I have made some very fixed arrangements as to where I am going to be between now and the end of July.  I am not available.  A date was suggested, I believe that provisionally counsel for the Commission suggested a date to the other side when they too are not available, so it would - if the matter is postponed on the discussions that we had with counsel for the applicants, it would, subject to the Committee granting the postponement, it would have to be postponed to after the first week of August.  Because may I say that my clients have gone to considerable, well have relied on my doing this application.  I have partly prepared it and I could have done it on the 28th when term begins but Judge Nugent requires me in his court for three or four days on the 28th.  I will be available shortly after that on the basis that some of the preparation, if not most of it, will be done by those that do not have my commitments.
	Finally Mr Chairperson you may have seen the letter of authority, I don't know whether it has been handed in, that originally we appeared for Mrs Hani only.  We now appear for the South African Communist Party as well.  We explain in the affidavit when Jerome Cronin became aware of the detailed allegations which the applicants make against his party and what the late Chris Hani stood for, he stands for, so they most certainly have a real and substantial interest.  The deceased was their secretary general.  
	Much of what is said in these documents in, to state the least and try and avoid exaggeration, in intemperate language and they are entitled to be heard.  So that even if you find Mrs Hani or us in some way responsible for not being ready, which we do not concede, there is another perspective of another organisation which cannot be ignored.  We have not been, although a notice to the African National Congress was traced, we couldn't establish precisely when it was sent and we believe, unless there is some clerical error in the filing system of the South African Communist Party they could find no trace of their having been given notice.
	But I don't want to put it on a technical basis.  If this were a civil over a modest bit of money a Supreme Court Judge would have granted a postponement once documents were thrown at us in this way, two weeks before.