Anon, thank you for the comment and for calling the Telegraph article to readers’ attention. I don’t want to speculate about whose account of the contents of the Price interview tape is correct. The whole point of the best evidence rule, which I referred to in the post, is to require parties to use the best evidence of a document’s contents—here the tape itself—to prove the document’s contents. So let the judge hear what the tape says, and avoid these dueling statements.

I can’t really comment on what is or is not likely to affect a UK proceeding, as I’m not a UK lawyer, but it seems to me that in general, a statement in the newspaper will not, or at least should not, have any effect.

”However, Price has agreed to be interviewed about what she told the Boston College researchers, and her claims of the contents of the tapes are published by The Sunday Telegraph today. They put her at odds with Ed Moloney, a documentary-maker who was commissioned to carry out the research for the college. Earlier this month, he issued a statement in which he claimed that there was no mention of Adams or Mrs McConville in Price’s testimony. ”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/northernireland/9560123/IRA-bomber-says-Gerry-Adams-sanctioned-mainland-bombing-campaign.html