Day 208 - 24 Jan 96 - Page 36
1 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Thank you.
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3 MR. MORRIS: Coming on to grills, tripping out and problems
4 associated with that, grills have tripped out, have they
5 not, on occasions?
6 A. Very occasionally, yes.
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8 Q. Very occasionally.
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Keep your voice up, please, Mr. Cox.
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12 MR. MORRIS: That would happen if the RCD system broke down,
13 would it not?
14 A. Yes.
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16 Q. You do not recall it happening, in your experience, more
17 than once or twice or a few times, or what? Once or twice
18 you say; yes?
19 A. Yes, I think so, as far as I can remember.
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21 Q. You can only remember once or twice. But the RCD system,
22 there was a problem with that, was there not, for months
23 and months after it was installed?
24 A. I could not tell you.
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26 Q. You cannot remember?
27 A. At the time, I would not have been involved in that
28 kind of -- dealing with problems of that nature.
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30 Q. Right.
31 A. I could tell you what it was like -----
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33 Q. So you cannot remember the RCD system failing over a period
34 of six, eight or 10 months, something like that?
35 A. Over a period of time, it would have failed a few
36 times, but it did not happen as a regular occurrence two or
37 three times a shift or two or three times a week, as far as
38 I am aware.
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40 Q. But it failed a lot more times than once or twice, when you
41 experienced the grills tripping out?
42 A. Well -----
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44 Q. It was a problem with the RCD system, was it not, over a
45 long period of time?
46 A. I could not estimate the period of time that it was
47 over.
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49 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What Mr. Morris has just put to you is that
50 the RCD system failed more frequently than the grills just
51 tripping out. Can you recall whether -- is that so,
52 according to your recollection, or not?
53 A. I would not have said so, no.
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55 MR. MORRIS: So far, we have heard evidence on this from
56 Sean Richards, and I believe the evidence he gave -----
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: May I just say, this is slightly what I was
59 getting on about before. You do not have to challenge a
60 witness with another witness's evidence.
