How long did it take EP to finally release the phone logs, Hartley? Some 19 years, I believe and then only when they were compelled to do so by a court order.
It's impossible, however, to obtain documents held under PII with a court order. So the defence have no means whatsoever of obtaining such records.
That's not true Keira, they have every means of obtaining PII withheld documents, there is a whole application process associated with such requests. There is no guarentee that an application would be successful however.
Another confusion is the age of the case, nowadays PII withheld evidence is documented and listed, therefore a defence making an application would be aware of what is withheld but would not be aware of the contents of a withheld document.
In this case the use of PII is grossly overused, there is not a handy list of documents being withheld, any reference to a withheld phone bill is in Mikes head (unless he can show us otherwise). The use of the phrase 'PII' in this instance is incorrect, what Mike is actually trying to say is that the phone bill which he belives exist is being criminally kept away from the defence, it has nothing to do with PII which did not exist in it's current form in 1985.
