Day 167 - 02 Oct 95 - Page 34
1 Mr. Tindale to clear off!
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3 MR. RAMPTON: No, he has an urgent appointment at the bank and I
4 wondered if maybe he could just go.
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6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: As far as I am concerned, he can go. I did
7 not want to send him away and have Mrs. Brinley-Codd
8 running off down the corridor after him! Yes?
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10 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, it is entirely a matter for your
11 Lordship, but we do not need any further time with
12 Mr. Richards because we have caught up with Mr. Morris's
13 handwritten notes -- we did that over the adjournment -- so
14 far Mr. Richards is concerned.
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16 The only thing which is troubling me at the moment -- there
17 are two things, one is the Operations manual and that we
18 can deal with quite separately. I know Mr. Richards
19 himself has some information about that which, if your
20 Lordship thought it a good idea, Mr. Atkinson could ask him
21 about when he gives evidence. The other thing is the
22 incident report forms for undercooked products. We have
23 fallen between two stalls at the moment. The posted copies
24 which Mr. Richards sent to us on Thursday, at about
25 lunch-time on Thursday, last week, following your
26 Lordship's indication that you thought they ought to be
27 disclosed, have not yet arrived. We have managed to get
28 some of them from Head Office, some information, yes, but
29 not the actual forms themselves. Is that right? I would
30 suggest that those be left over anyway (because
31 Mr. Richards, I suspect, will have to come back tomorrow)
32 until tomorrow. We will do our best to get them to the
33 Defendants as soon as we possibly can.
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35 MR. JUSTICE BELL: But I am anticipating -- perhaps Mr. Morris
36 will tell me if I am wrong -- that having given some
37 further information on the sheet which you have, he may
38 raise again the question of what, if any, documents, if
39 they still exist, could usefully be discovered.
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41 MR. RAMPTON: I have had a look at that. With the possible
42 exception of the last two paragraphs on the second
43 sheet ---
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45 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What does "PR" stand for?
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47 MS. STEEL: "Performance review".
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49 MR. RAMPTON: -- that possibility and these allegations to the
50 employment office, which I think means the government,
51 which is a new allegation -- yes, and there is a letter of
52 complaint which we certainly do not have. I suspect that
53 since Mr. Morris has been able to say that the complaint
54 are numbered one to 10 that he, Mr. Morris, may have a copy
55 in which case we should be given one.
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57 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not know. It may just be that Mr. Logan
58 can remember that there were 10 numbered complaint on it.
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60 MR. MORRIS: That is correct.
